Shanghai and Nanjing 1937 - Massacre on the Yangtze

From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the start of a de facto state of war between the two countries. This force then moved south, landing an expeditionary force to take Shanghai and from there drive west to capture Nanjing.

This fully illustrated book tells the story of the Japanese assault on these two great Chinese cities. The battle of Shanghai was the first large-scale urban warfare of World War II and one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Sino-Japanese War. The determined resistance by Chinese inflicted sizable Japanese casualties, and may well have contributed to the subsequent massacre of prisoners and civilians in the battle of Nanjing, tarnishing Japan's reputation in the eyes of the world.

List of contents

The strategic situation
Chronology
Opposing commanders
Opposing forces
Opposing plans
The campaign
The aftermath
The battlefield today
Further reading
Index

About the author

Benjamin Lai was born in Hong Kong, educated in the UK, and went on to serve as an officer in the British Territorial Army in the 1980s and 1990s. Fluent in both Chinese and English, he currently works as a development and business consultant in China.

Summary

A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.

Foreword

A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Lai, Lai Benjamin
• Assisted by: Giuseppe Rava (Illustration), Giuseppe (Illustrator) Rava (Illustration), Rava Giuseppe (Illustration), Nikolai Bogdanovic (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781472817495
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-1749-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 250 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Campaign; Campaign; Campaign series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, China, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, General and world history, Battles & campaigns, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, Battles and campaigns