CHINA'S WAR WITH JAPAN, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter ( 9780141031453 )

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Title:

CHINA'S WAR WITH JAPAN, 1937-1945
THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

By:

Rana Mitter

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Paperback

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014103145X

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9780141031453

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

8 May, 2014

Pages:

480

Description:

Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity. This book focuses on this incident.

Synopsis:

Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today. With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict. He writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Mitter puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan's failure to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia.

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2 x 8pp b&w

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