As we go into the high gear of Ichigo and Ugo and the war in Burma, I have sometimes worried that the sourcing on the Chinese and Japanese efforts in mainland Asia is uneven.
Indiana Neidell has talked about the difficulty in finding detailed battle chronologies/casualty reports of the type that are littered across books about the European campaign which then feed into the weekly episodes.
I know they are using Hans Van de Ven’s China at War, Rana Mitter’s Forgotten Ally, Richard Frank’s Tower of Skulls, but I wanted to know if they had this book.
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Hans Van De Ven and others. It is 467 pages (not counting citations/index) with maps. It was written in 2010 so it is modern and came out AFTER the release of Chiang Kai Shek’s diaries. It has Japanese, American, European, Taiwanese, and Chinese authors. (The earlier english language books about this period with any detail tend to be written by American/British authors and tend to be dominated by American/British interests and planning.)
The TOC is below and I think the Time Ghost team could really use Part V as we go into 1944-1945.
Part I. Overviews of the War
Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
HANS VAN DE VEN AND EDWARD J. DREA
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An Overview of Major Military Campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
EDWARD J. DREA AND HANS VAN DE VEN -
The Dragon’s Seed: Origins of the War
MARK R. PEATTIE
Part II. The Two Armies on the Eve of the War
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The Nationalist Army on the Eve of the War
CHANG JUI-TE -
The Japanese Army on the Eve of the War
EDWARD J. DREA
Part III. From the Fighting at the Marco Polo Bridge, July 1937, to the Fall of Wuhan, October 1938
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Chiang Kai-shek and the Battles of Shanghai and Nanjing
YANG TIANSHI -
Japanese Operations from July to December 1937
HATTORI SATOSHI WITH EDWARD J. DREA -
The Defense of the Central Yangtze 181
STEPHEN MACKINNON -
The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China,1938-1941
TOBE RYOICHI
Part IV. The Middle Years and the Search for Military Solutions
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The Japanese Air Campaigns in China, 1937-1945
HAGIWARA MITSURU -
The Great Bombing of Chongqing and the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945
EDNA TOW -
China’s Quest for Foreign Military Aid
ZHANG BAIJIA -
Nationalist and Communist Guerrilla Warfare in North China
YANG KUISONG -
Japanese Combat Morale: A Case Study of the Thirty-seventh Division
KAWANO HITOSHI
Part V. The Later Japanese Offensives: The Burma and Ichigo Campaigns
**14. Japanese Operations in Yunnan and North Burma **
ASANO TOYOMI
15. Chinese Operations in Yunnan and Central Burma
ZANG YUNHU
**16. The Ichigo Offensive **
HARA TAKESHI
**17. The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese Military’s Response to Operation Ichigo **
WANG QISHENG
Part VI. Historical Perspectives
18. The Strategic Correlation between the Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars
TOHMATSU HARUO
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The Sino-Japanese War in History
HANS VAN DE VEN -
The Sino-Japanese War in the Context of World History
RONALD SPECTOR