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"C" Force to Hong Kong : A Canadian Catastrophe
Brereton Greenhous
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This is the story of a “no military risk” campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare. The book provides new answers to a number of difficult questions beginning with a discussion of why Canadian troops were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British War Office. Were the British duplicitous in making this request? Was Canadian Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, guilty of putting his own interests above those of his men in telling the minister of National Defence that there was “no military risk” in sending the “C” Force?
The book recounts the formation of the “C” Force and its departure to Hong Kong where it arrived just three weeks before the Japanese attack. It outlines the course of the battle from December 8, 1941, until the inevitable surrender of the garrison on Christmas Day. It places appropriate emphasis on the Canadian contribution, refuting 1947 allegations by the British General-Officer-Commanding — allegations which were only made public in 1993 — that the Canadians did not fight well. Greenhous attacks these charges with solid evidence from participants and eye-witnesses.
Finally, the book tells the story of life and death in the prison camps of Hong Kong and Japan.
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Acknowledgements
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Epigraphs
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Foreword
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Chapter 1 The Strategic Background, 1934-1941
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Chapter 2 The Canadian Commitment
Page 25-36
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Chapter 3 "C" Force to Hong Kong
Page 37-44
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Chapter 4 "A Psychological Miracle"
Page 45-52
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Chapter 5 The Japanese Attack
Page 53-62
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Chapter 6 Loss of the Mainland Territories
Page 63-88
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Chapter 7 "A Spectacular and Grim Crossing"
Page 89-96
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Chapter 8 Confusion Worse Confounded
Page 97-110
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Chapter 9 Divided — and Conquered
Page 111-124
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Chapter 10 "We are Being Blamed"
Page 125-140
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Chapter 11 In Spite of Dungeons
Page 141-170
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Chapter 12 Work, Death, and Cherry Blossom Time
Page 171-182
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Chapter 13 Liberation
Page 183-190
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Notes
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Index
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Title
"C" Force to Hong Kong
Subtitle
A Canadian Catastrophe
Contributors
Brereton Greenhous
Publisher
Dundurn
Publication date
2016-02-22
Pages
192
Print ISBN
9781550022674
eBook ISBN
9781554880430
LC Subjects
World War
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1939-1945 - Campaigns - Hong Kong.
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General/trade, General/trade
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