The Tokyo War Criminals Trial tried Tojo and 27 top Japanese wartime leaders who waged WW2. The man responsible was not indicted. Hirohito was allowed…
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Tag: World War II History (Books)
Challenges in Palestine: Truman’s Role Revisited
The British Mandate over Palestine was a disaster for all inhabitants of this ancient land. The attitude of those in charge is best summed up…
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China Alone – Part 3
An unknown fact is that the Russian government, while the UK and the US watch, did assist China to fight the invasion. Peter Harmsen tells…
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Tariq Ali’s Book Recommendations
Tariq Ali is a polymath. Age 80 he was born in Lahore, British India. He studied in Oxford. He has written many history and political…
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China Alone – Part 1
Before the Japanese attacked the US naval base in Pearl Harbour on 7 Dec 1941, which forced the US to action, China fought the Japanese…
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Fiction vs. Fact: Lust, Caution and the Real-Life Story
Most people assume the 2007 movie Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee is based on a real- life assassination in World War 2 Shanghai as…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 3
There are 3 incidents that are major indictments on the record of Chiang Kai Shek. The torching of the city of Changsha in 1938, the…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 2
Storm Clouds over the Pacific 1931-1941 by Peter Harmsen is the first volume of a planned trilogy on the war in the East. Harmsen narrates…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 1
Storm Clouds over the Pacific 1931-1941 by Peter Harmsen is the first volume of a planned trilogy on the war in the East. Peter writes…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific
Hanjian is a Mandarin word used to refer to Chinese traitors who work with the enemies. Its literal meaning is Han traitor. In Cantonese the…
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