Author: Vivienne Poy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrillas
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Resistance During Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45
Author: Vivienne Poy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrillas
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrillas
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Hong Kong Independent Battalion
Author: Yueqing Xu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789881488404
Category : Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789881488404
Category : Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45
Author: Philip Cracknell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398110280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Four years of fear: escapes, resistance, internment, occupation and finally - liberation. Philip Cracknell brings his unrivalled knowledge of Hong Kong during this time.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398110280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Four years of fear: escapes, resistance, internment, occupation and finally - liberation. Philip Cracknell brings his unrivalled knowledge of Hong Kong during this time.
Three Years Eight Months
Author: Derek Pua
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947766006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The occupational period by the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII is Hong Kong¿s darkest chapter in history, colloquially known as the ¿Three Years and Eight Months¿ period amongst veterans and survivors. However, the lack of contemporary interests towards this subject by historians has led to a limited amount of academic works on the subject being published. This lack of written works, coupled with the declining population of veterans and survivors, has already resulted in the memory of the war to be neglected amongst Hong Kong¿s youth, almost forgotten.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947766006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The occupational period by the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII is Hong Kong¿s darkest chapter in history, colloquially known as the ¿Three Years and Eight Months¿ period amongst veterans and survivors. However, the lack of contemporary interests towards this subject by historians has led to a limited amount of academic works on the subject being published. This lack of written works, coupled with the declining population of veterans and survivors, has already resulted in the memory of the war to be neglected amongst Hong Kong¿s youth, almost forgotten.
Captive Years
Author: Alan Birch
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945
Author: Oliver Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"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.
Hong Kong 1941–45
Author: Benjamin Lai
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781782002680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On 8th December 1941, as part of the simultaneous combine attack against Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) invaded the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia and the British colony of Hong Kong. After only 18 days of battle the defenders, a weak, undermanned brigade was overwhelmed by a superior force of two battle-harden IJA divisions. What makes the battle of Hong Kong was not the scale - just 14,000 defended the colony - but the intensity of this battle fought not only by the British Army, Navy and Air Force but also Canadians, Hong Kong's own defence force, the Indian Army as well as many civilians. The campaign itself is characterized by a fierce land battle, with long artillery duals and as well as fast naval actions with intense actions at the Gin Drinkers Line as well as the battle of Wong Nai Chung Gap where a handful of defenders took on an entire Japanese regiment. Less known but equally important are individual valour such as CSM John Robert Osborne winning a posthumous VC, throwing himself over a Japanese grenade to save fellow combatants. Capitulation by the defenders on 25 December 1941 marks the end of one battle and the beginning of another. A subject not significantly covered by Western historian is local resistance to Japanese occupation. Lead by the communist Chinese, many continued to fight the Japanese forming the Guangdong people's Anti-Japanese East River Guerrilla Detachment that by 1945 grew from 200 to a 6,000-strong force. The guerrillas rescued downed allied pilots, harassed the Japanese with bombing and assassinated traitors and collaborators. Those Allies POW that managed to escape to China continued the fight in a secretive new organization - the British Army Aid Group (BAAG). As the war draw to a close, the question of reestablishing British control became a highly contentious diplomatic dual between China, USA and Britain, but with the death President of Roosevelt in 1945, decolonization lost its main champion and Britain was able to outmaneuver Chiang Kai Shek, the Chinese Generalissimo, and recover Hong Kong as a British Colony. After three years and eight months of Japanese occupation, Rear Admiral Sir Harcourt sailed into Hong Kong on board the cruiser HMS Swiftsure to reestablish control over the colony and accepted the formal surrender of Japan on 16 September 1945.
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781782002680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On 8th December 1941, as part of the simultaneous combine attack against Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) invaded the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia and the British colony of Hong Kong. After only 18 days of battle the defenders, a weak, undermanned brigade was overwhelmed by a superior force of two battle-harden IJA divisions. What makes the battle of Hong Kong was not the scale - just 14,000 defended the colony - but the intensity of this battle fought not only by the British Army, Navy and Air Force but also Canadians, Hong Kong's own defence force, the Indian Army as well as many civilians. The campaign itself is characterized by a fierce land battle, with long artillery duals and as well as fast naval actions with intense actions at the Gin Drinkers Line as well as the battle of Wong Nai Chung Gap where a handful of defenders took on an entire Japanese regiment. Less known but equally important are individual valour such as CSM John Robert Osborne winning a posthumous VC, throwing himself over a Japanese grenade to save fellow combatants. Capitulation by the defenders on 25 December 1941 marks the end of one battle and the beginning of another. A subject not significantly covered by Western historian is local resistance to Japanese occupation. Lead by the communist Chinese, many continued to fight the Japanese forming the Guangdong people's Anti-Japanese East River Guerrilla Detachment that by 1945 grew from 200 to a 6,000-strong force. The guerrillas rescued downed allied pilots, harassed the Japanese with bombing and assassinated traitors and collaborators. Those Allies POW that managed to escape to China continued the fight in a secretive new organization - the British Army Aid Group (BAAG). As the war draw to a close, the question of reestablishing British control became a highly contentious diplomatic dual between China, USA and Britain, but with the death President of Roosevelt in 1945, decolonization lost its main champion and Britain was able to outmaneuver Chiang Kai Shek, the Chinese Generalissimo, and recover Hong Kong as a British Colony. After three years and eight months of Japanese occupation, Rear Admiral Sir Harcourt sailed into Hong Kong on board the cruiser HMS Swiftsure to reestablish control over the colony and accepted the formal surrender of Japan on 16 September 1945.
The Fall of Hong Kong
Author: Philip Snow
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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
Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941
Author: Philip Cracknell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445690500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
25 December 1941 is known to this day by the people of Hong Kong as ‘Black Christmas’. The battle for Hong Kong is a story that deserves to be better known.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445690500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
25 December 1941 is known to this day by the people of Hong Kong as ‘Black Christmas’. The battle for Hong Kong is a story that deserves to be better known.
Internment of European Civilians at Stanley During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, 1941-45
Author: Sir Franklin Charles Gimson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description