There were just a handful of Danish people in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked in December 1941, and they had to decide: would they fight? The Danish consul in Shanghai forbade them to swear allegiance to the British crown--required of the soldiers who joined the Hong Kong volunteer force--but they ignored him.
They fought, and some of them died for the British King and for Hong Kong.
The rest were confined in prisoner-of-war camps or shipped to work in coal mines in Japan.
This is the story of those Danes and of their families in the British colony on the coast of China, told with heartbreaking detail from letters and interviews with the survivors.
It is a story which transcends nationalities and eras, a story of heroism and tragedy, cruelty, and courage.
About the Author Frode Ziebell Olsen is a Danish writer of novels and historical documentary books, born in 1950 in Copenhagen.
He retired in 2013 as Detective Chief Superintendent after thirty seven year's service with the Copenhagen police and National Danish police, with lengthy postings abroad as police liaison officer, including in the Balkans, Iraq, and China, where he served from 2008 to 2013 at the Royal Danish Embassy in Beijing as police counselor.
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Earnshaw Books Fighting for two kings: danish volunteers in the defence of hong kong 1941, paperback/frode olsen
