One soldier's story 1939-1945: from the fall of Hong Kong to the defeat of Japan
(2002)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dundurn : Made available through hoopla, 2002
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781459712812 (electronic bk.) MWT11795277, 1459712811 (electronic bk.) 11795277
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made
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