Long-hsuen, Hsu; Ming-kai, Chang [compilers]. History of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Taipei, Taiwan: Chung Wu Publishing Co., 1972. Second Edition. [11413]
Blue cloth, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, light bumps to binding corners, small white institutional spine label. Once part of an historical society library, with some pencil numbers inside, name stamps, "withdrawn" stamp. Map front end papers, xviii, 16 unnumbered pp. of b/w plates, 642 text pages including index and 71 charts, 47 numbered maps at end in color, some folding. Tight; no dust jacket. Good. Hardcover.
Translated by Wen Ha-hsuing; Revised by Kao Ching-chen, Hu-Pu-yu, Liu Han-mou, Liu Ih-po, and Lu Pao-ching.
"China's War of Resistance against Japan which began with the Manchurian Indicent of Sept. 18 1931 and ended with Japan's surrender on Sept. 3, 1945 took fourteen years. During this time the period which began on July 7, 1937 when Japan launched full-scale war against China with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident was the bloodiest and most difficult...[The Chinese people] took part in 23 campaigns, 1,117 major battles, 38, 931 engagements, spnt Fapi $1,4464.3 billion, lost 3,237,916 officers and men in casualties and 5,787,352 civilians in casualties before achieving final victory." - Preface.
