Life in post-war Hong Kong: a first-hand account by a famous Scottish author

Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, prolific Scottish author of travel accounts, memoirs, novels and stage plays – some of which were turned into successful films – was a house­hold name across the English-speaking world in the first half of the 20th century, yet he is almost completely forgotten today. Why Churchill didn’t want Hong Kong defended against Japanese, and how the colony survived wartime occupation Better known as Compton Mackenzie, most of his works...

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