Author Book Talk and Signing at the NBM: The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan.

Nov. 30, 7-9 pm

Join author Andy Flanagan for a book talk and signing of his publication The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan. Hong Kong was the first place Canadians fought a land battle in the Second World War. From 8 to 25 December 1941, almost 2,000 troops from Canada fought bravely against the overwhelming power of an invading Japanese force. When the British colony surrendered on Christmas Day, 290 Canadians had been killed in the fighting. Another 264 would die over the next four years amid the inhumane conditions of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. Based on the first-hand accounts of the author’s father, Andrew “Ando” Flanagan, a rifleman from Jacquet River, NB, The Endless Battle explores the Battle of Hong Kong and its long aftermath, through the eyes of the soldiers.