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With hostilities between Japan and China beginning Fairbairn was in a particularly dangerous position. One incident was when Fairbairn met a Japanese Officer, who was a fellow Judo exponent on a pier. They exchanged pleasantries and Fairbairn noticed 150 Chinese men, women and children with their hands tied behind their backs sitting by a Japanese Naval vessel.

Fairbairn asked what was to become of them. The Japanese Officer said they would be shot. Fairbairn asked if he could take them. The Japanese Officer said no, they are to be shot. Fairbairn very calmly said that if they were shot he would meet the Japanese Officer some night and they would settle the score. The threat was implicit and the Japanese Officer later gave the Chinese captives to Fairbairn.

The Legend of W.E. Fairbairn, Gentleman and Warrior: The Shanghai Years
The culmination of years of research by the late Peter Robins, the biography of W.E. Fairbairn, "the father of CQB" has been published.

Entitled " Fairbairn The Gentleman Warrior" this first volume covers his early life, the Shanghai years, up until the start of WW-2. A subsequent volume will cover the rest of the story of how he trained the Commandos, SOE, OSS etc.

Chapters include "The Shanghai School of Shooting" "USMC in Shanghai" "WEF Manuals" Also, lots of excerpts from Cavalcade, [Fairbairn's handwritten journal], a very detailed chapter on the Shanghai shooting school [including a comparison with Captain Tracy's methods.

Much also on the SMP training, including diagrams and photos of the assault/obstacle course. Loads of cases of the SMP engaging bandits, kidnappers and drug runners in the alleys, brothels and opium-dens of "the World's most dangerous city".

The text is heavily illustrated with numerous photos, many never before published.