The China-Japan War, 1931-1945
@article{Gordon2006TheCW, title={The China-Japan War, 1931-1945}, author={David M. Gordon}, journal={The Journal of Military History}, year={2006}, volume={70}, pages={137 - 182} }
WAR, Sun Tzu tells us, “is of vital importance to the state, being the arena in which life or death is decided and the pathway to survival or ruination.” The Japanese invasion on 7 July 1937 put the Chinese Republic in mortal danger. In the end, the Republic prevailed. But China was devastated. The war also made possible a successful Communist revolution that destroyed traditional society. By 1945, Japan, too, was almost destroyed. Its empire lost and its political structure remade by its…
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