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Internet Archive:  Too Hot for Comfort - the War Years in China 1938-50

Illustrated by 86 drawings.

The first edition of this book was prepared in a hurry during the hot summer of 1941, under conditions far from ideal; it was written and compiled in the evenings after very busy and long days of preparation for a possible siege of the Colony. The book was scrappy and inaccurate in consequence. Something of the kind was, however, needed as shewn by the fact that the edition was sold out in the course of a few weeks...

The following chapter describes the medical services and health conditions in Hong Kong during the fighting in 1941 and the Japanese occupation that followed. It appeared in Volume II of "The Civilian Health and Medical Services" by Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, published by H.M. Stationery Office, 1955, which is part of HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, UNITED KINGDOM MEDICAL SERIES

A history of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club

Eastern Waters Eastern Winds is available online and is PDF searchable.  Click here

Street Names

Google pdf link ... https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacA--PtqAjCS…

Book excerpt from Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War by Steven K. Bailey

Published in February 2024 by Osprey/Bloomsbury in the UK.  

Green Jade  is an autobiographical account by Dorothy Neale that ends with the death of her husband in 1987. It covers their life in Hong Kong from 1929 to 1940 and subsequent years in Australia with a return to Hong Kong in 1946 for a few years. The family then returned to Australia for good.

An autobiographical account of the life of Dorothy Neale and her family, of which the years 1929 until the 1940 evacuation were spent in Hong Kong, The account continues until the death of her husband Freddie Neale in 1987.

In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries.

Published by Hong Kong University Press (2010), 144pp.