C Force to Hong Kong
A Canadian Catastrophe
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 ju…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4597-1332-1
- EAN: 9781459713321
- Produktnummer: 20459602
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'002 KB
Über den Autor
Brereton Greenhous worked for twenty-five years in the Department of National Defence's Directorate of History. He has authored, co-authored, or edited a dozen books on Canadian military history, including Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War.
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