An account of Hong Kong leading up to the Japanese invasion in 1941
"A Voyage to War: An Englishmans's Account of Hong Kong 1936-41" by Hugh Dulley
A brief description of the book:-
Hugh Dulley’s father (Peter Dulley) and mother (Therese Sander) met in Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve 1935. Four years later at the outbreak of war, Peter, a weekend sailor, was called up in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He eventually graduated to command an ocean-going tug of 500 tons from Hong Kong to Aden. En route he called at islands still enjoying pre-war peacetime and navigated across the Indian Ocean using a sextant.