1. An Overview of Major Military Campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937 – 1945

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Introduction xix
7. Acknowledgments xxiii
8. Part I. Overviews of the War
9. Introduction 1
10. Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937 – 1945 7
11. 1. An Overview of Major Military Campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937 – 1945 27
12. 2. The Dragon’s Seed: Origins of the War 48
13. Part II. The Two Armies on the Eve of the War
14. Introduction 81
15. 3. The Nationalist Army on the Eve of the War 83
16. 4. The Japanese Army on the Eve of the War 105
17. Part III. From the Fighting at the Marco Polo Bridge, July 1937, to the Fall of Wuhan, October 1938
18. Introduction 139
19. 5. Chiang Kai-shek and the Battles of Shanghai and Nanjing 143
20. 6. Japanese Operations from July to December 1937 159
21. 7. The Defense of the Central Yangtze 181
22. 8. The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China, 1938 – 1941 207
23. Part IV. The Middle Years and the Search for Military Solutions
24. Introduction 233
25. 9. The Japanese Air Campaigns in China, 1937 – 1945 237
26. 10. The Great Bombing of Chongqing and the Anti-Japanese War, 1937 – 1945 256
27. 11. China’s Quest for Foreign Military Aid 283
28. 12. Nationalist and Communist Guerrilla Warfare in North China 308
29. 13. Japanese Combat Morale: A Case Study of the Thirty-seventh Division 328
30. Part V. The Later Japanese Offensives: The Burma and Ichigo Campaigns
31. Introduction 357
32. 14. Japanese Operations in Yunnan and North Burma 361
33. 15. Chinese Operations in Yunnan and Central Burma 386
34. 16. The Ichigo Offensive 392
35. 17. The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese Military’s Response to Operation Ichigo 403
36. Part VI. Historical Perspectives
37. Introduction 421
38. 18. The Strategic Correlation between the Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars 423
39. 19. The Sino-Japanese War in History 446
40. 20. The Sino-Japanese War in the Context of World History 467
41. Reference Matter
42. Notes 485
43. Bibliographies: Explanatory Note 569
44. A Selected Bibliography of English-Language Sources 571
45. A Selected Bibliography of Chinese-Language Sources 577
46. A Selected Bibliography of Japanese-Language Sources 583
47. Character List 587
48. Index 595