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A true story of the Sino-Japanese conflict: A?valuable account of a little-known event [and] a grim reminder of the darker side of war? (Military History Monthly). The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious massacre has never been told in its entirety. Nanjing 1937 by Peter Harmsen fills this gap. This is the follow-up to Harmsen's bestselling Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, and begins where that book left off. In stirring prose, it describes how the Japanese Army, having invaded the mainland and emerging victorious from the Battle of Shanghai, pushed on toward the capital, Nanjing, in a crushing advance that confirmed its reputation for bravery and savagery in equal measure. While much of the struggle over Shanghai had carried echoes of the grueling war in the trenches two decades earlier, the Nanjing campaign was a fast-paced mobile operation in which armor and air power played major roles. It was blitzkrieg two years before Hitler's invasion of Poland. Facing the

Who reads Nanjing 1937 : Battle for a Doomed City?

Author

Harmsen, Peter

Publisher

Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612002842

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Military History, History

Rating

4.2 / 5 (217 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14