If you think you know all you ever wanted to know about Britain in the Second World War, consider these statistics. Between 1939 and 1945, the British Army lost 217,809 men killed, and 259,621 taken prisoner. In Malaya in 1942, a small Japanese army crushed a much larger British, Indian and Australian force, in exchange for a mere 10,000 casualties. Of the 139,000 allied losses, 94% were men taken prisoner. (I have always suspected that fewer of those who…

Source: The North Africa Journal March 31, 2019 00:11 UTC