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Author: Bruce, George C.
Title: Shanghai's Undeclared War: [An illustrated factual recording of the Shanghai hostilities]
Place Published: Shanghai, China
Publisher:Mercury Press
Date Published: [1937]
Description:

88 pp. text + 116 pp. of halftone photographs, multiple images on each page. 31x23 cm (12¼x8¾"), original stiff wrappers with color pictorial label on front cover, cloth spine, color pictorial endpapers. First Edition.

Vivid and horrifying day-by-day account of the terror unleashed by the Japanese on the great city of Shanghai in August of 1937. Ownership inscription on front endpaper reads "Property of: P.F.C. - Ray H. Smith, HQ's - 2nd Bn.-6th. 2nd Marine Brig. Shanghai, China. 1937. 1938."

The author notes in the preface, "This book has been compiled by the author with the sole object in view of presenting to the public a chronological, factual diary of the Shanghai hostilities of 1937 and the developments of the Sino-Japanese conflict in North China insofar as they directly bear on the situation as a whole. Many of the developments and events herein chronicled were personally viewed by the author. The others were gleaned from accounts by neutral newspaper staff representatives, news agencies and statements given out by the press spokesmen, the source of which has been duly indicated in each case."

Binding worn, spine frayed, cover edge chipped; shaken, a few pages loose; good condition.