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SUMMARY:'The Military Importance - or lack thereof - of Singapore to the J
 apanese War Effort: 1942-45 - Professor Malcolm H. Murfett (National Unive
 rsity of Singapore)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Malcolm H. Murfett was born in Grove in the United Kingdom in 
 1948. After studying at both Keele and Leeds universities\, he won a schol
 arship to New College\, Oxford\, to do graduate work leading to the award 
 of a D.Phil in History in 1980. While at Oxford he was appointed the Princ
 ipal Research Assistant to the Earl of Birkenhead and worked for five year
 s on the officially commissioned single-volume life of Sir Winston Churchi
 ll. He joined the Department of History at the National University of Sing
 apore in 1980. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 
 1990. Professor Murfett’s publications include _Fool-proof Relations: Th
 e Search for Anglo-American Naval Cooperation During the Chamberlain Years
 \, 1937–1940_ (1984)\; _Hostage on the Yangtze: Britain\, China and the 
 Amethyst Crisis of 1949_ (1991)\; _In Jeopardy: The Royal Navy and British
  Far Eastern Defence\nPolicy 1945–1951_ (1995)\; _The First Sea Lords: F
 rom Fisher to Mountbatten_[ed.] (1995)\; _Naval Warfare 1919–1945: An Op
 erational History of the Volatile War at Sea_(2009)\; _Imponderable But No
 t Inevitable: Warfare in the 20th Century_ [ed.] (2010)\, _The Cold War in
  Southeast Asia_ (Singapore: ISEAS\, forthcoming 2011) is\nhis current boo
 k project.
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