


Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review Twitter: the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Instead of withdrawing, Japan took over French Indochina in 1940-41 the US, Britain and the Netherlands cut off oil imports in 1941, which accounted for over 90% of Japan's oil supply. undertook large-scale military and economic aid to China and demanded Japanese withdrawal. In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria ("Dongbei" Manchu-gwo) after the Manchurian Incident, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China.
