In the summer of 1937, the “Pearl of the Orient” became a slaughterhouse. A million Chinese and Japanese soldiers engaged in savage urban combat in China’s coastal city of Shanghai. Before the battle, ...

Unlike the Stalingrad battle, the Battle of Shanghai took place under the eyes of numerous Westerners who could bear witness to the slaughter. “It was as though Verdun had happened on the Seine, in ...

The Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was the very first - and decidedly the most horrific - of the 22 major campaigns fought between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army during ...

Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze. Osprey Publishing Harmsen, Peter (2013). Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze.

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THIS day started, like all the days since Shanghai first took bombs to its bosom, with an air raid. The Japanese planes came over from the river, crossed our part of town, and dropped bombs somewhere ...