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Indlæser... The Damnedaf Nathan M. Greenfield
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. https://www.instagram.com/p/-92fRbzKBs/ This was not the history of the battle of Hong Kong that I had hoped for. It is more a personal history of the defeat than an analytical history of the campaign and its aftermath. As such it captures individual stories quite well, but gives a dispassionate history poorly. A dominant sub-theme of the book, not implied in the least by the title, is an examination of the question of whether the Royal Rifles of Canada fought well in the defence of Hong Kong. This may well deserve a book on its on, but the harping on it in this work, weakened the book itself. Perhaps the murk of war is too great to deliver the book I seek, but regardless this book was disappointing. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"The Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada's first land battle of the Second World War - fought in the hills and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941--and the terrible years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the Empire of Japan.
Their story begins in the fall of 1941, when almost 2,000 members of the Royal Rifles and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to bolster the British garrison at Hong Kong. In the seventeen-day battle for the colony following the Japanese attack on December 8, the Canadians suffered grievous losses. The second part of their story - how the Canadians survived the horrid conditions of the Japanese POW camps - lasts three and a half years. Despite the circumstances, the surviving Canadians remained unbowed and unbroken. Theirs is a story of determination and valour, of resilience and faith."--pub. desc. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IILC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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