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Foreign observers who arrived in the Chinese capital of Nanjing in early September 1945 for the handover of power from the Japanese occupation forces to the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek noticed something odd: The city, where the Japanese had carried out
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Most are familiar with the portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of communist China, hanging over the entrance of Tiananmen, the Gate of Heavenly Peace, in Beijing.
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Art.IWM ART LD 4503 Behind every great literary epic, there are real, deeply human ghosts.
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In the autumn of 1943, the quiet, Quaker-hewn campus of Swarthmore College became an unexpected frontline for international military diplomacy.
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Image source: National Archives In the autumn of 1944, John L.
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The cinematic landscape of wartime Hollywood was shaped by propaganda, patriotism, and a pressing need to tell stories of global conflict.
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If you picture the Japanese soldiers who fought in China and across the beaches of the Pacific, it is easy to imagine them as physically identical to modern Japanese people.
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The photograph is quiet, almost unremarkable at first glance: a small group of men standing in the dust, horses waiting behind them, the light harsh and unforgiving.
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As 1937 slipped into 1938, Nanjing was a city living through catastrophe.
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Three years ago I shared this excerpt from my book Darkest Christmas, about how the holiday was marked in wartime China in 1942.