TY - BOOK AU - MITTER Rana TI - China's war with Japan, 1937-1945: the struggle for survival SN - 9781846140105 (hbk.) : PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Allen Jane KW - WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 KW - CHINA KW - JAPAN KW - FOREIGN RELATION KW - JAPAN N1 - Published in USA as "Forgotten ally" by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity. This title draws on a range of sources to recreate this terrible conflict ER -