Hi, I am looking for some documentation about the World war 2 in HongKong/China (I wanne know about the daily living, for example: what do they eat, What did they do? hide?... ) A documentarty ? some doc's?
http://gwulo.com/harrison-forman-hong-kong-collection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong http://hk.coastaldefence.museum/en/section1-1.php http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/ http://www.hongkongescape.org/ http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison.html [video=youtube;DZJeGEDzOp8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZJeGEDzOp8&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;blRfYTGbtWg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blRfYTGbtWg&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;RbzEo9WMJ4o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbzEo9WMJ4o&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;bPOyF1pRiLc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOyF1pRiLc&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;Cvycwv2lYDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvycwv2lYDo&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;oQU6pl1-qRg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQU6pl1-qRg&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;LTS9zlicQIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTS9zlicQIA&feature=related[/video] WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT AFTER 05:20 [video=youtube;dmju0wAj2ws]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmju0wAj2ws&feature=related[/video] One of the things that really stand out in this brutal bit of history is the absolute and total incompetence of the British military leadership. They literally had four years to prepare Hong Kong's defenses and squandered it by sitting on their thumbs.
I firmly fault the Brits for not properly defending Hong Kong. Despite witnessing the Japanese invasion of China since 1937, instead of sending thousands more troops, fortifying their bunkers, and expanding their air and sea capability, the Brits relied on the notion that the Japanese (as an imperial power that had designs on China too) would never dare to attack another imperial power's colony. Instead, they pinned their defense strategy on diplomacy. The 2000 Canucks sent in the few weeks before the Japanese onslaught was purely for political show. It was a laughable number in comparison to the nearly 60,000 battle hardened Imperial Japanese Army troops that were just over the border in China. It was a pure and utter failure of the highest order that laid bare the dismal state of British overseas diplomacy; Hong Kong suffered through three years of brutal occupation as a result.
