Bailey, Steven

Books

Captured at Hong Kong: The Wartime Fate of the Steamship Admiral Y.S. Williams and Its All-American Crew.  Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, 2028.

Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War. Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2024.

Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945.  Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“American Aircraft and Aircrew Losses over Hong Kong and Canton, 15-16 January 1945.  Forthcoming in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 66, 2026. 

Co-written with Peter E. Cundall.  “Japanese Ships in Victoria Harbour during the U.S. Navy Airstrikes of 16 January 1945: A Bilingual Listing.”  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 65, 2025, pgs. 211-219.

Co-written with Peter E. Cundall.  “The Death of the Coasters: The Mass Scuttling of Merchant Shipping during the Japanese Invasion of Hong Kong, December 1941.”  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 64, 2024, pgs. 33-68.

“American Merchant Sailors at Sham Shui Po and Stanley: The Fall of Hong Kong and the Fate of the Steamship Admiral Y.S. Williams.”  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 63, 2023, pgs. 29-56.

“Briefing Failure in Ready Room 4: The Question of Culpability for U.S. Navy Air Strikes on Macau, 16 January 1945.”  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 58, 2018, pgs. 30-54.

“The Bombing of Bungalow C: Friendly Fire at the Stanley Civilian Internment Camp.”  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, vol. 57, 2017, pgs. 108-129.

Faculty member, Fall 2026 voyage of the Semester at Sea study abroad program (Institute for Shipboard Education/Colorado State University)

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, Michigan Technological University (2010)

M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction, University of Alaska Fairbanks (1990)

B.A. in English and in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1987)

Composition and Rhetoric

Creative Nonfiction

Military Nonfiction

The American Experience in Hong Kong during World War II