We Shall Suffer There

Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45

Tony Banham

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• Published: March 2009
• Subject Listing: Asian Studies, Military History, WWII
• Bibliographic information: 260 pp., 6 x 9 in.
• Territorial rights: North American rights only
• Distributed for: Hong Kong University Press
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This is the first work to document the experiences of Hong Kong's prisoners of war and civilian internees from their capture by the Japanese in December 1941, to liberation, rescue, and repatriation. While the camps in Hong Kong itself have been mentioned in other works, there has so far been no definitive chronology of their operation. Where the camps in Japan (to which many of the Hong Kong POWs were sent in six main drafts) have been mentioned, coverage has been superficial and limited in scope, and many camps have been entirely overlooked. This book includes them all, and the movements between them, using only primary sources and only - as far as possible - the words of those involved.

Tony Banham is the author of Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941 and The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy.