Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented from the perspective of the West. Departing from this tradition The Battle for China brings together Chinese Japanese and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political economic and cultural realms. The volumes diverse contributors have taken pains to sustain a scholarly dispassionate tone throughout their analyses of the course and the nature of military operations from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the final campaigns of 1945. They present Western involvement in Sino-Japanese contexts and establish the wars place in World War II and world history in general.
