Dimensions
129 x 198 x 25mm
The Fall of Hong Kong and Imrpisonment by the Japanese.
As a police officer in pre-war colonial Hong Kong, George Wright-Nooth was studying for his Chinese language exams when the Japanese invaded on Christmas Day, 1941. He spent the next four years incarcerated in the Japanese Military Internment Camp at Stanley. Daily life became marked by hunger and appalling suffering at the hands of the guards.
He regularly witnessed death and torture, and his account of a multiple execution by sword is moving and horrific. While many of his fellow prisoners cracked beneath the terrors of such atrocities, the author repaid such treatment with subversive activities, such as the running of secret radios, and the smuggling of food and messages to and from some of those held by the dreaded Japanese gendarmerie.
Perhaps most remarkably of all, the author kept a diary throughout his incarceration which, miraculously, was never discovered by his imprisoners. Extracts from this diary and accounts from fellow prisoners make up much of this book, which is a tale of human courage and endurance.
