SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR.

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Four Months of War. First edition of this history of the Battle of Shanghai. It opens with a general overview before delving deeper with photographic illustrations of the Japanese military, defensive fortifications on the Bund, evacuating refugees, and Chinese officers. The illustrations are accompanied by cartoons by "Sapajou", the pen name of Georgii Avksent'ievich Sapojnikoff, a Russian army officer who drew for the North-China Daily News.

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