What follows is a chronological narrative history of the battle for Shanghai that raged from August to November 1937, which the author sees as the first major battle of the Second World War. The badly beaten and bullet-ridden bodies presaged the violent combat that would begin in Shanghai just days later as Chinese and Japanese forces engaged in the “bloodiest international battle in Asia since the Russo-Japanese War” (247). Peter Harmsen begins his study of the 1937 battle for Shanghai with the mystery of the “three corpses,” which arose with the discovery of the bodies of two Japanese sailors and an unnamed Chinese near the Hongqiao Aerodrome outside of Shanghai. Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, written by Peter Harmsen Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, written by Peter Harmsen
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