Unlike the Stalingrad battle, the Battle of Shanghai took place under the eyes of numerous Westerners who could bear witness to the slaughter. “It was as though Verdun had happened on the Seine, in ...
Key Point: The Japanese victory (and brutality) at Shanghai empowered further Japanese military aggression into the 1940s. In the summer of 1937, the “Pearl of the Orient” became a slaughterhouse. A ...