Churchill's command to defend Singapore to the death shattered his image as a grandfatherly leader and proved he was an arch-imperialist who disregarded civilian lives.

“And with this message specifically even more so than the earlier one that I read which was verbatim by the way that shatters that grandfatherly image of Winston Churchill completely and he's you know, I've heard people call him a warmonger before and different things like that”