Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945
Charles Barman and Ray Barman
Abstract
This is one of the fullest descriptions of the fighting in Hong Kong in 1941 and subsequent imprisonment of Hong Kongers, but in addition it is the view of a mature professional soldier, one who had signed on in 1919 and in his long service had seen much, spending time on the North West Frontier in India. The author of this book was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery during the battle for Hong Kong in December 1941. His job was to keep the artillery supplied and so he criss-crossed the mainland and Hong Kong Island during the fighting, getting a broader view of what was going on t ... More
Keywords: fighting, Hong Kong, imprisonment, Royal Artillery, prisoner of war, Argyle Street camp
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9789622099760 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011 | DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789622099760.001.0001 |
