THE 

UNCENSORED 

FAR EAST

by

Hubert Hessell Tiltman

Jarrold’s Publisher’s Ltd., London, 1938

Book Details

2nd. Edition. x, 304pp with a black and white frontispiece and 31 other black and white illustrations.

Size of  Book: 23cm x 15cm/9in x 6in

Book Description

Very good publisher’s original yellow cloth covers with titles in black on the spine. Spine slightly darkened. Foxing to the top, leading and bottom external edges.

Light foxing to the front and rear endpapers, the title page and to some pages but generally the text is in good with no other marks or blemishes. 

In a very good (+) to near fine dust jacket.

Tiltman reported in the 1930s as a foreign correspondent on the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1938) and he claims that “the evidence presented in these pages is the result of first hand investigation and reveals the truth concerning some of the sensational aspects of events in 1937.”

The book was published shortly before the outbreak of the 2nd. Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

Chapters cover subjects including heroin smuggling in  north China, the vice gangs of Shanghai, events in Manchukuo, success and failures of General Chiang Kai-Shek, the inside story of the Soviet-Manchukuo border crisis of July 1937.

Much on Shanghai. opium, Manchuria/Manchukuo etc.

About the Author

Hubert Hessell Tiltman (1897 - 1976)  was a British journalist and writer.

Tiltman reported in the 1930s as a foreign correspondent on the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1938) and in 1937 he was arrested by the Japanese secret police Kempeitai on suspicion of espionage. Officially, he was charged with the unusual charge of "taking a photograph without a camera".