BATTLE FOR HONG KONG 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune

Full and authoritative account of one of Britain’s forgotten disasters of the Second World War : sparing no-one, the authors give definitive answers as to why Hong Kong’s 12,000 defenders fell into Japan’s hands and what happened to them thereafter.

Compared to the fall of Singapore, the loss of the British colony of Hong Kong to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 is a forgotten disaster of the Second World War . This book fills a yawning gap in our knowledge. The authors not only deliver an authoritative historical account of the military story, but seek to answer some of the nagging questions arising from the debacle : did Churchill and the Chiefs of the General Staff neglect the Colony’s defences? How determined was the defence itself? Did Britain’s spy network inside China do more harm than good - in terms of reprisals inflicted on PoWs and civilians? And finally - what exactly were the atrocities meted out by the victorious Japanese upon their helpless captives? Using a mass of unpublished official material - including war diaries - the authors at long last answer these questions and many more, and provide the reasons why over 12,000 British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders fell into the merciless hands of the Japanese army on that grim day.

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Product Code:	10634
Author:	Oliver Lindsay with the Memories of John R. Harris, Foreword Field Marshal Lord Bramall
Format:	272pp, b/w photographs, maps, sb. Published Price £14.99
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