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    Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze

    Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze

    by Benjamin Lai, Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)


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      ISBN-13: 9781472817518
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
    • Publication date: 06/29/2017
    • Series: Campaign
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 96
    • File size: 28 MB
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    Benjamin Lai was born in Hong Kong, educated in the UK, and went on to serve as an officer in the British Territorial Army in the 1980s and 1990s. Fluent in both Chinese and English, he currently works as a development and business consultant in China.

    Giuseppe Rava was born in Faenza in 1963, and took an interest in all things military from an early age. Entirely self-taught, Giuseppe has established himself as a leading military history artist, and is inspired by the works of the great military artists, such as Detaille, Meissonier, Röchling, Lady Butler, Ottenfeld and Angus McBride. He lives and works in Italy.
    Nikolai Bogdanovic is a highly experienced military history editor. Born in the UK in 1970, in 1998 he joined Osprey Publishing, one of the world's leading military history publishers. He has previously co-authored The British Army: The Definitive History of the Twentieth Century in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, London, and has a particular interest in 19th- and 20th-century conflicts. In addition to writing and research, Nikolai has edited hundreds of military history books for a wide range of publishers. He currently works as an independent publishing professional specializing in military history from his home in Devon.

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    Table of Contents

    Origins of the Campaign 5

    The strategic situation

    Chronology 9

    Opposing Commanders 11

    Chinese

    Japanese

    Opposing Forces 17

    Chinese

    Japanese

    Orders of battle

    Opposing Plans 27

    Chinese

    Japanese

    The Campaign 31

    Shanghai

    The Chinese Verdun

    The crossing of Suzhou Creek

    The Chinese collapse

    The road to Nanjing

    The battle for Nanjing

    The collapse and massacres

    Aftermath 86

    The Battlefield Today 90

    Acronyms and abbreviations 92

    List of Chinese and Japanese names 92

    Further Reading 94

    Index 95

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    From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the start of a de facto state of war between the two countries. This force then moved south, landing an expeditionary force to take Shanghai and from there drive west to capture Nanjing.

    This fully illustrated book tells the story of the Japanese assault on these two great Chinese cities. The battle of Shanghai was the first large-scale urban warfare of World War II and one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Sino-Japanese War. The determined resistance by Chinese inflicted sizable Japanese casualties, and may well have contributed to the subsequent massacre of prisoners and civilians in the battle of Nanjing, tarnishing Japan's reputation in the eyes of the world.

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