This guidebook is designed to help visitors navigate Macaus maze of narrow streets as well as understand the striking contrasts that make this city such a fascinating place to visit. With its compact size, winding back streets, and pedestrian-only lanes and plazas, Macau is best explored on foot. Though geared to those who wish to experience Macau at a walking pace, Strolling in Macau will serve any visitor interested in the history and culture of one of Asias most unique cities.

Strolling in Macau: A Visitor's Guide to Macau, Taipa, and Coloane

Sports & Outdoors

Bailey, Steven K.

Hiking & Camping

Thingsasian Pr

Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945: Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts, and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to life.

Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war

History

Asia

Osprey_Publishing

Bold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second World War. Steven K. Bailey sheds new light on the American military campaign against Japanese forces in occupied China. From the first reconnaissance flights over Hong Kong by lone pilots in 1942 to the massive multi-squadron air strikes of 1945, he describes the complex history of American air operations in the China theater and paints an indelible portrait of the American air raids on Hong Kong and the airmen who were shot down over the city. Today unexploded aircraft bombs are unearthed with frightening regularity by construction crews in Hong Kong. Residents are eager to know where these bombs originated, who dropped them, when, and what the targets were. Bailey’s account answers some of these questions and provides a unique historical perspective for Americans seeking to understand the complexities of military involvement.

Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942–1945

POTOMAC BOOKS

Inspired by his twenty-year love affair with Hong Kong, Steven K. Bailey has transformed the typical Hong Kong guidebook. Not only does he tell you which bus to take to Stanley Market, based on his personal history with th e city, he shares where to sit for the best views, and what to look out for along the way. From dolphin watching, cable car rides, and cave hikes to shopping the street markets and megamalls, Exploring Hong Kong offers more than thirty richly detailed experiences that will unite travelers with the soul of one of Asias most exciting cities.

Exploring Hong Kong: A Visitor's Guide to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories

Travel

Global Directions/Things Asian Press

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