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Three Years Eight Months

The Forgotten Struggle of Hong Kong's WWII

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Three Years Eight Months

By: Jenny Chan, Derek Pua
Narrated by: Doug Greene
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Eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army launched an invasion plan for Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong.

Since Hong Kong was a British Colony at the time, soldiers from British colonies including India and Canada fought alongside Chinese guerrilla fighters. However, soldiers defending the city at the time were largely unprepared and Japan claimed its victory within 18 days.

During the Christmas of 1941, the governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young surrendered Hong Kong and started the three years eight months of the Japanese Imperial Army's occupation of Hong Kong. Civilians were raped and tortured during the occupation.

Instead of caring for the citizens' stories and wellbeings at the end of WWII, people cared about who Hong Kong belonged to as England and China raced to reach the city.

The book tells the stories of the Battle for Hong Kong, daily civilian lives, Hong Kong mafia's collaboration with the Japanese Imperial Army, and the POWs camp in Hong Kong during the occupation.

©2019 Pacific Atrocities Education (P)2019 Pacific Atrocities Education Asia China Military World War Imperial Japan Solider
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As much as you can enjoy a book of this type of material, I did. Very well written and narrated. I agree with the ideas articulated at the beginning of this book. That if we as humans are ever going to right the wrongs of history, we need to look at the complete history of the world and not just through the lens of western history. To ignore this fact is to continue to condemn people to make the same mistakes.

In the current geo political situation the world finds it self in at the moment this book is more relevant then ever before.

Well worth every dollar.

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