ASIN: B00IK6BAA0
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 21
! Please note: you will need to be 'linguistically patient' in reading this work, as terms from languages other than English appear. Explanations are given in the footnotes which sadly feature as endnotes in this e-book format. Apologies in advance. Otherwise please enjoy and free feel to comment and give a star or two... (or five!)Memories from the subconscience re-visit one of the Europeans who had been in China during the first half of the twentieth century, and one of the minority of Westerners involved in the opening part of the Pacific War. Also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War - after the first such war in 1894-95 which saw Taiwan ceded to Japan - hostilities officially began in July 1937. However China's sovereignty had long been under attack, Manchuria in China's north-east having been annexed by Japan in 1931.('Keen Berliner' is Berlinerisch: the Berlin dialect. 'Keen' is ...
