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Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC (18 September 1878 – 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps as a wing commander and senior staff officer.
15 de oct. de 2018 · Overview. This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the fall of Singapore.
After his retirement, Brooke-Popham was well known to RAF Staff College students at Bracknell for the named essay prize given for the best dissertation. So, this book effectively is a full-scale biography of Brooke-Popham in the context of his life and times and is to be commended for that alone.
Naval Institute Press, Oct 15, 2018 - History - 448 pages. This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and...
“The Man Who Took the Rap”: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore. By Peter Dye. History of Military Aviation. Edited by Paul J. Springer. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. Pp. xx+412. $44.95. Alan Allport
23 de nov. de 2018 · The subtitle of the book is: “Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore.” This is a well researched and well written book on the life of the man who would be best known for a nation’s failure, the loss of Singapore in the face of a Japanese tidal wave, rather than in terms of his distinguished career in the RAF and in ...
23 de oct. de 2020 · Sir Robert Brooke-Popham held senior commanding roles within the Royal Air Force, most significant being Commander-in-Chief of the Far East in the early 1940s. His role in the Fall of Singapore has been the subject of historical inquiry and debate, with his family’s wartime activities frequently overlooked as a result.
