FERGUSON, TED - Desperate Siege the Battle of Hong Kong

Toronto ON: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385146949. Date written top front free end paper, one short tear each side top of book spine. Price clipped dust jacket has numerous short tears, creasing and chipping ; Stated First Edition on copyright page, A tight solid book, hinges intact, B&W photos and map. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages; "The Hong Kong expedition was a shameful tragedy. Nearly all 2000 Canadian soldiers (Winnipeg Grenadiers & Royal Rifles of Canada), poorly trained and badly equipped, were sent to help defend an outpost that Winston Churchill had already written off as expendable. After only 17 days fighting, the British colony collapsed on Christmas Day 1941, and the survivors spent the reainder of the war in barbarous POW camps." (author) Ted Ferguson compiled much of his information through interviews with survivors of the POW camps.. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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