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Book Synopsis The Fall of Hong Kong by : Philip Snow
Download or read book The Fall of Hong Kong written by Philip Snow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Fall of Hong Kong by : Mark Roberti
Download or read book The Fall of Hong Kong written by Mark Roberti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fall of Hong Kong written by Tim Carew and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of Hong Kong by : Tim Carew
Download or read book The Fall of Hong Kong written by Tim Carew and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Not the Slightest Chance by : Tony Banham
Download or read book Not the Slightest Chance written by Tony Banham and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Lasting Honour by : Oliver Lindsay
Download or read book The Lasting Honour written by Oliver Lindsay and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of Hong Kong by : Mark Roberti
Download or read book The Fall of Hong Kong written by Mark Roberti and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The fall of Hong Kong : [the lasting honour of a desperate resistance] by : Tim Carew
Download or read book The fall of Hong Kong : [the lasting honour of a desperate resistance] written by Tim Carew and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Endless Battle by : Andy Flanagan
Download or read book The Endless Battle written by Andy Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--
Book Synopsis One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945 by : George S. MacDonell
Download or read book One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945 written by George S. MacDonell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 by : Oliver Lindsay
Download or read book The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 written by Oliver Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has been over sixty years since Hong Kong was liberated from the Japanese. In The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 Oliver Lindsay reveals the intrigue, betrayal, and heroism behind the surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese by its British, Canadian, Indian, and Chinese defenders on Christmas Day 1941 after eighteen days of intense fighting. Lindsay's work is based on interviews with over 100 veterans and civilian interness as well as other previously unpublished sources, including material from the Canadian military archives in Ottawa."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Before Hiroshima by : Jacqueline Jeynes
Download or read book Before Hiroshima written by Jacqueline Jeynes and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fall of Hong Kong by : John Mohun Carew
Download or read book Fall of Hong Kong written by John Mohun Carew and published by [London] : A. Blond [1960]. This book was released on 1960 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Weekend to Pack by : Caroline Wigley
Download or read book A Weekend to Pack written by Caroline Wigley and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hong Kong in the Shadow of China by : Richard C. Bush
Download or read book Hong Kong in the Shadow of China written by Richard C. Bush and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied major thoroughfares to push for full democracy now. Fueling this struggle is deep public resentment over growing inequality and how the political system—established by China and dominated by the local business community—reinforces the divide been those who have profited immensely and those who struggle for basics such as housing. Richard Bush, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on East Asia Policy Studies, takes us inside the demonstrations and the demands of the demonstrators and then pulls back to critically explore what Hong Kong and China must do to ensure both economic competitiveness and good governance and the implications of Hong Kong developments for United States policy.
Book Synopsis The Gate to China by : Michael Sheridan
Download or read book The Gate to China written by Michael Sheridan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to understand the world in which we live. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures and eyewitness reporting over three decades. The story takes the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century to the age of globalisation, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, the fight for democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. As the West seeks a new China policy, we learn from private papers how Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to deal with Beijing and put her trust in a spymaster who was tormented by his own doubts. The Chinese version of history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and documents, many of them entirely new to the foreign reader, which reveal China's negotiating tactics. The voices of Hong Kong people eloquent, smart and bold speak compellingly here at every turn. The Gate to China tells how Hong Kong was the gate to China as it reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge the West with a new order that raised fundamental questions about freedom, identity, and progress. Told through real human stories and a gripping narrative for the general reader, it is also critical reading for all who study, trade or deal with China.
Book Synopsis Freedom's Fall in Hong Kong by : Alvin Rabushka
Download or read book Freedom's Fall in Hong Kong written by Alvin Rabushka and published by Hoover Inst Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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