Ocean devil
Subtitle: the life and legend of George Hogg
By: James MacManus.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780007270750
Subjects: Hogg, George Aylwin, -- 1915-1945; University of Oxford -- Graduate students -- Biography; English -- China -- Biography; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Children; China -- History -- 1937-1945
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Hogg's extraordinary odyssey in war-torn China, from 1938 to 1945, during which years he witnessed the aftermath of terrible Japanese massacres and met a number of Mao Tse-tung's generals, is a truly epic tale." "Working as a journalist, at a time when the Chinese civil war was also raging, Hogg was to become headmaster in 1943 of a school for orphans in north-west China. How he led and protected them from the Japanese on a 700-mile march across high mountain ranges in the winter of 1944-45 marks the stunning climax to an incredible story: one that, ending in his tragic death, will move and inspire all who read it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-282) and index.