Benjamin Lai: Shanghai and Nanjing 1937 [2017] paperback Condition:Very Good and thinkers who gathered weekly

and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern

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has returned home after a failed marriage

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Benjamin Lai: Shanghai and Nanjing 1937 [2017] paperback Condition:Very Good and thinkers who gathered weeklyFrom 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