Links 

During the course of my writing I had visit many web sites for personal and research purposes. The ones mentioned below highlight the best of these, and I would encourage anyone who has an interest in this period of history to visit and enjoy! I will be adding to this list as progress through the projects dictates.

When looking through the web at sites for information and background, there were very few that were from the British point of view, which is why I started my own trek!

By far the greatest number were by Canadians that reflected their tremendous contribution to the defence of Hong Kong by The Winnepeg Grenadiers and The Royal Rifles of Canada.

The best of these sites by far was one by Ron Parker that tells the story of his father Major Maurice A. Parker, Commanding Officer 'D' Company, Royal Rifles of Canada. It is an extremely detailed and worthwhile web site that I have no hesitation in recommending.  The book writen as a result is:                                                                                                    DEADLY DECEMBER The Battle of Hong Kong The Royal Rifles of Canada, The Winnipeg Grenadiers. The book is available, like mine, on Lulu.com for £10.99 plus P&P. (http://www.lulu.com/content/561522)

Tony Banham, author of two marvelous books and accompanying web sites, Not the Slightest Chance and The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, has a whole wealth of information in them, and both books can be purchased directly from the Hong Kong University Press.

I have also had occasion to visit web sites that cover less prominent, yet no less important, aspects of the fall of Hong Kong. In the defence of Hong Kong the British had left the defence in the hands of thousands of very brave servicemen and volunteers who had very little by way of materials to work with. However, as part of the defence flotilla was a series of gunboats, originally designed to assist the Navy in their patrolling of the Chinese rivers, that were commandeered to assist in the defence of Hong Kong. These fabulous little vessels ferried men and munitions, helped with evacuation and redeployment. In my book there is a brief summary of the main ones involved, but they deserve a history to themselves and you can find out all about them on the following web site www.hmsfalcon.com It is a marvellous site, full of images and textual detail that provides an in depth look at Royal Naval river gunboats.

For those of you who wish to investigate more generally there are a couple of very good sites covering the war in the Far East used by survivors and relatives. The one I use the most, and am a member of, is the  COFEPOW web site, and I also highly recommend the FEPOW web site.

No web site these days can do without reference at some point to Wikipedia - this self sustaining site is the ultimate in information gathering covering virtually every subject under the sun, and if it does not - then add to it!!