In time of war : lt. cmdr. Henry C.S. Collingwood-Selby, R.N. (1898-1992) and others   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2581120B

  Author(s)

  Collingwood-Selby, Richard

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789888228225 

  Date of Publication

  2016 

  Edition

  2nd pbk ed 

  Publisher

  Proverse Hong Kong  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  452 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Military and Naval

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Collingwood-Selby, Richard

  Publisher

  Proverse Hong Kong  

• Description

  In Time of War is a compilation of materials mostly written by Lt. Cmdr. Henry C.S. Collingwood-Selby, R.N. (1898-1992). They have been transcribed by his son, Richard Collingwood-Selby, O.B.E. and edited by himself (in Chile) and Gillian Bickley (in Hong Kong) The book shows how a British naval officer, confined during the Second World War as a Prisoner of War in Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation, engaged his mind during those three and a half years. There are talks he gave to other POWs, drawings and essays. Transcripts from his diary for the year immediately before the Fall of Hong Kong provide fascinating insights, as do correspondence with family and friends and official documents. Photographs and narratives relating to his previous time with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service and descriptions from the time of the Japanese occupation of Kiukiang on the Chinese Mainland provide unusual first-hand information.