When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945This narrative history is the story of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). It examines the isssues and partisans that controlled Eastern Asia and eventually influenced its entrance in World War II. |
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... Shanxi front under the Guomindang General Yan Xishan . Zhu , a one - time opium addict and then Mao Zedong's legendary military partner in the early 1930s , remained commander - in- chief of the newly - designated Eighth Route Army ...
... Shanxi front under the Guomindang General Yan Xishan . Zhu , a one - time opium addict and then Mao Zedong's legendary military partner in the early 1930s , remained commander - in- chief of the newly - designated Eighth Route Army ...
Page 55
... Shanxi provincial troops of the Guomindang General Yan Xishan . The principal divisions of the Communist Eighth Route Army under General Zhu De had , however , crossed the Yellow River into Shanxi early in September . The Shanxi ...
... Shanxi provincial troops of the Guomindang General Yan Xishan . The principal divisions of the Communist Eighth Route Army under General Zhu De had , however , crossed the Yellow River into Shanxi early in September . The Shanxi ...
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... Shanxi was a failure , and it petered out on 27 May . Elsewhere in Shanxi the new Japanese commander , General Okamura Neiji , described by the Chinese Communists as ' one of the three ablest generals in the Japanese army , a devil ...
... Shanxi was a failure , and it petered out on 27 May . Elsewhere in Shanxi the new Japanese commander , General Okamura Neiji , described by the Chinese Communists as ' one of the three ablest generals in the Japanese army , a devil ...
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Marco Polo Bridge | 13 |
Shanghai Falls | 30 |
Down to the Yellow River | 49 |
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