Did you know that many resistance fighters in the Malayan jungles were just teenagers? That one of the first large-scale coded messages created in Changi prison was inspired by girl guides? And that many university students from Malaya and Singapore returned during the war as commando-spies?

We Shall Remember: The Story of Singapore at War is the fascinating story of World War II and the Japanese Occupation in Singapore.

In addition to the more familiar events, this book also uncovers little-known but no less exciting stories of Singapore’s war experience, such as the secret school in Sime Road Prison, the courageous quilters in Changi Goal, the multi-racial volunteers of the Burma-Yunnan Road, the grandmother who became a fighter, and many more. Hear from teenage resistance fighters, fearless commando-spies, the unbreakable war heroine, soldiers who chose death over dishonour, and many other unsung heroes. The people who march through its pages with their stories of courage and sacrifice are multi-racial and multi-national, which show the war as it truly played out in Singapore. What happened on the Malay Peninsula is also captured here to an extent as both lands were integrated under colonial rule at that time.