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Author: Philip Snow
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist
Author: Philip Snow
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Book Description
The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist
Author: Tim Carew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hong Kong
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Tim Carew
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Tony Banham
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774810456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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More than 10% of Hong Kong's defenders were killed in battle; a further 20% died in captivity. Those who survived seldom spoke of their experiences. Many died young. The little primary material surviving--written in POW camps or years after the events--is contradictory and muddled. Yet with just 14,000 defending the colony, it was possible to write from the individual's point of view rather than that of the Big Battalions so favoured by God (according to Napoleon) and most historians. The book assembles a phase-by-phase, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and death-by-death account of the battle. It considers the individual actions that made up the fighting, as well as the strategies and plans and the many controversies that arose.
Author: Oliver Lindsay
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Mark Roberti
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Roberti takes a comprehensive look at the negotiations that determined how China would rule Hong Kong after 1997. Revealing startling new details, the book argues that Britain failed to negotiate adequate safe-guards for her colony, thereby betraying millions of her citizens.
Author: Mark Roberti
Publisher: Paragon House
ISBN: 9781557786548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Tim Carew
Publisher:
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Category : Hong Kong (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Andy Flanagan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773100050
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Near the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops who set sail from Vancouver to reinforce the British Colony of Hong Kong. Within two short months, after a hard-fought but disastrous battle against the Imperial Japanese Army, the island fell to the invaders on Christmas Day, and its defenders were ordered to surrender by the governor of Hong Kong. The survivors were taken captive. Based on the first-hand accounts of the author's father, Andrew "Ando" Flanagan, a rifleman from Jacquet River, NB, The Endless Battle explores the Battle of Hong Kong and its long aftermath, through the eyes of the soldiers. During their captivity, the POWs endured starvation, forced labour, and brutal beatings. They lived in deplorable conditions and many died from illness. But the soldiers stuck together, bound by their camaraderie, loyalty to King and Country, and collective desire to sabotage the Japanese war effort. Writing intimately and sensitively about the lingering effects of the trauma of the soldiers held in captivity, Andy Flanagan shows both the heroism of individual soldiers and the terrible costs of war."--
Author: George S. MacDonell
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459712811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.
