
This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review Twitter: the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Instead of withdrawing, Japan took over French Indochina in 1940-41 the US, Britain and the Netherlands cut off oil imports in 1941, which accounted for over 90% of Japan's oil supply. undertook large-scale military and economic aid to China and demanded Japanese withdrawal. In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria ("Dongbei" Manchu-gwo) after the Manchurian Incident, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China.
