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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading nanjing 1937. The battle of nanking or nanjing was fought in early december 1937 during the second sinojapanese war between the chinese national revolutionary army and the imperial japanese army for control of nanking nanjing, the capital of the republic of china. Facing the full might of modern, mechanised warfare, chinas resistance was heroic, but ultimately futile. Peter harmsen, journalist the infamous rape of nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of world war ii. Nanjing 1937 ebook edmonton public library bibliocommons.
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