Charles Barman was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery during the battle for Hong Kong in December 1941. His job was to keep the artillery supplied and so he criss-crossed the mainland and Hong Kong Island during the fighting, getting a broader view of what was going on than most participants. Fortunately he kept a diary during those terrible days.

Barman's powerful observations - in arguably the most comprehensive of Hong Kong's wartime diaries - expose for the first time the battle experience of a forgotten unit, the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, and add a singular perspective on the officers incarcerated in the Argyle Street POW Camp. -- Tony Banham, author of We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45

Charles Barman was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery during the battle for Hong Kong in December 1941. His job was to keep the artillery supplied and so he criss-crossed the mainland and Hong Kong Island during the fighting, getting a broader view of what was going on than most participants. Fortunately he kept a diary during those terrible days.

Barman's powerful observations - in arguably the most comprehensive of Hong Kong's wartime diaries - expose for the first time the battle experience of a forgotten unit, the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, and add a singular perspective on the officers incarcerated in the Argyle Street POW Camp. -- Tony Banham, author of We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45