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Yet the spirit of the story, and much of its flesh, is honest and, to newcomers in war, may well be clarifying. Moreover, the book serves as a travelogue and resume of the war in the East, from the fall of Nanking through China's first great victories in...
The two most eloquent passages in the book meditate these effects collectively: upon Chinese soldiers and civilians of all classes, above all the peasants, who have been shaken and sharpened into a transcendent courage; and upon the Japanese troops, who have been spiritually demented into the dismembering of live animals...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried...
To the post of Commander in Chief of Home Defense, Premier Tojo, mindful of the Imperial prestige, appointed a relative of the Emperor, General Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, 54. In 1937 Prince Higashi Kuni, who must worry about Japan's highly combustible cities, commanded Japanese troops at the capture...
March 30, 1940. Japan set up its Wang Ching-wei puppet Government at Nanking.