Hong Kong Prisoners Of War

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    HONG KONG: The Inside Story Of Canada’s Role In A Doomed Garrison

    November 1, 2011 by J.L. Granatstein
    Seventy years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan began its war against the West, attacking Pearl Harbor, Malaya and moving against Hong Kong. In the Crown Colony’s garrison were almost 2,000 Canadian soldiers, only recently arrived and scarcely acclimatized. For the next 18 days,...