The War's Long Shadow
Subtitle: The Second World War and Its Aftermath
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: September 15, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780671645588
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; History / General; World War, 1939-1945; World politics; General
First sentence: Although Westerners tend to think of the start of World War II in terms of 1939 or 1941, China and the world had their first brush with the Second Great War in 1931, when Japanese military forces "peacefully" occupied the north Chinese border province of Manchuria.