Sinking of the Lisbon Maru – Britain′s Forgotten Wartime Tragedy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and - for some - to liberation and beyond.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-04-01
Mått155 x 227 x 18 mm
Vikt506 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHong Kong University Press
Antal sidor344
FörlagHong Kong University Press
ISBN9789888083138

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Lokalhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Tony Banham is a long-term resident of Hong Kong, having arrived in the 1980s. He has been studying the Battle of Hong Kong for well over a decade and has written on the subject, aided in the production of numerous television documentaries, and helped many children of veterans in their researches into their fathers' war years. His first book on the topic, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, was jointly published by Hong Kong University Press and the University of British Columbia Press in 2003.