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New Year in Nanjing, 1937: Hope and Horror in the Safety Zone

As 1937 slipped into 1938, Nanjing was a city living through catastrophe. Only weeks earlier, Japanese forces had captured the Chinese capital, unleashing what would become known as the Nanjing Massacre. Tens of thousands were killed. Homes were burned. Women lived in constant fear of abduction and rape. And yet, within this nightmare, a fragile island of refuge existed: the International Safe

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	Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze 3.95 avg rating — 843 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41 (War in the Far East, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 (War in the Far East Book, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City 4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asian Armageddon, 1944–45 (War in the Far East Book, #3) 4.40 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenland at War: The United States, Germany and the Struggle for the Arctic, 1939–45 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkest Christmas: December 1942 and a World at War 3.53 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sindberg: den danske Schindler og Nanjing-massakren 1937-38 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Laurits Andersen - Kinafarer, entreprenør og mæcen 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We too are battling to destroy individualism,” Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess said, comparing Nazi thinking with Japanese collectivism. “We”
― Peter Harmsen, Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–41

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“August 17, an unregistered Portuguese man was beaten to death by a mob because he was thought to look Japanese.”
― Peter Harmsen, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze

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“Even though most of the Germans were in China on short-term contracts and could have left once the shooting started, they felt an obligation to stay at a key moment when their host nation’s survival was at stake. “We all agreed that as private citizens in Chinese employment there could be no question of our leaving our Chinese friends to their fate,” Alexander von Falkenhausen, the top advisor, wrote later.”
― Peter Harmsen, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze

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“If war is politics by other means, world war is globalization by other, violent means.”
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