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Website title: China in WW2 – Peter Harmsen’s blog on the 1931-45 conflict and the birth of modern Asia

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As 1937 slipped into 1938, Nanjing was a city living through catastrophe. Only weeks earlier, Japanese forces had captured the Chinese capital, unleashing what would become known as the Nanjing Massacre. Tens of thousands were killed. Homes were bu...


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Three years ago I shared this excerpt from my book Darkest Christmas, about how the holiday was marked in wartime China in 1942. Many readers told me it was one of their favorite glimpses into the human side of the war, so I’m sharing it again this year.

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On Christmas Day, all ranks of the foreign forces in China’s ...


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