China's Trial by Fire
Book description
China's Trial by Firepresents the balanced history of how, ten years before Pearl Harbor, Japan tested modern China in a thirty-three-day war, now known as the Shanghai War of1932. Often obscured by the larger World War II, this history details how the Chinese fought from trenches against Japan's modern bombers…
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I love history, especially of Asia and WWII, and Jordan’s intense and harrowing description of the “battle at the end of the street” in 1932 between the Chinese Nationalists and Japan moved me with its descriptions of the destruction and suffering it brought. Jordan is an academic, but this isn’t a stodgy history.
Jordan’s lively account covers not only the fighting, but the political maneuvering running up to it, efforts by the international community to control it, and the heroic stand by the Chinese Nineteen Route Army that gave the Japanese militarists all they could handle. I came away with…
From Martin's list on life in Shanghai in Sino-Japanese War.
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