From Jamaica to Japan, The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners

📁 Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

✍ Charles G. Roland 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong K

Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong

📁 Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong

✍ Alexander Grantham; Lord Wilson of Tillyorn 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Hong Kong University Press 🌐 English

Originally published in 1965, this edition includes a new introduction by Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, Governor of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1992, reflects on Grantham's contributions to Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Diaries

📁 The Hong Kong Diaries

✍ Chris Patten 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Penguin Random House UK 🌐 English

The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical t

📁 The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric

✍ Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Taylor and Francis 🌐 English

Portrayed as the ‘accidental pioneer of a new kind of urbanism’, Hong Kong’s evolution is traced from its pre-colonial and colonial origins to the contemporary vertical and volumetric metropolis of towers, podia-and-towers, decks, bridges, escalators and other components of multi-l

One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945: From the

📁 One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945: From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan

✍ George S. MacDonell 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Dundurn 🌐 English

<DIV><p>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

One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945: From the

📁 One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945: From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan

✍ George S. MacDonell 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Dundurn 🌐 English

<DIV><p>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