![]() ![]() It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare and had made old forms even more lethal. ![]() In its sheer scale, the struggle for China's largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store only a few years later in theaters around the world. ![]() The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.Īt its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators-and often victims. ![]()
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