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Back in the mid-seventies I was based in Hong Kong and writing feature articles for the "South China Morning Post", the major English-language paper in the Far East. In my ramblings around the colony, I had become fascinated with the many artifacts and accounts of the World War II battle for Hong Kong and produced a series of articles about the battle.
While researching the subject, I accumulated a mass of interviews, photographs, diaries, maps - then the most complete account of this dramatic but little-known engagement in the war. From the Japanese war archives in Tokyo, I traced the history of the 38th Division (the unit that invaded Hong Kong and was later destroyed on Guadalcanal) and interviewed many of the surviving officers.
From this material came Season of Storms: The 1941 Siege of Hong Kong, published in 1981 by SCMP, the Far East book-publishing arm of the South China Morning Post. |
