Название: Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze (Osprey Campaign 309)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2017
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 97
Размер: 73 Mb
Язык: English

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.