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"C" Force to Hong Kong : a Canadian catastrophe 1941-1945 /
This is the story of a "no military risk" campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British dupl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Canadian War Museum historical publication ;
no. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgements; Epigraphs; Foreword; Chapter 1 The Strategic Background, 1934-1941; Chapter 2 The Canadian Commitment; Chapter 3 "C" Force to Hong Kong; Chapter 4 "A Psychological Miracle"; Chapter 5 The Japanese Attack; Chapter 6 Loss of the Mainland Territories; Chapter 7 "A Spectacular and Grim Crossing"; Chapter 8 Confusion Worse Confounded; Chapter 9 Divided -- and Conquered; Chapter 10 "We are Being Blamed"; Chapter 11 In Spite of Dungeons; Chapter 12 Work, Death, and Cherry Blossom Time; Chapter 13 Liberation; Notes; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This is the story of a "no military risk" campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British duplicitous in making this request? Was Canadian Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, guilty of putting his own interests above those of his men in telling the minister of National Defence that there was "no military risk" in sending the "C" Force?The book recounts the formation of the "C." | ||
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