The Fall of Nanjing ("Mile Long Great Wall" Part 1): "Mile Long Great Wall" Part 1

Author: Zhou Erfu
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Publish Date: 1987-05-01
Features: This book is the part of the six-part series novel "The Long Wall of a Million Li." The six-part "The Long Wall of a Million Li" follows the main storyline of the cooperative struggle against Japanese aggression between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, combined with the global anti-Fascist front. It primarily focuses on the high-ranking leaders from the enemy, our side, and our allies, adopting a panoramic perspective to vividly depict the eight-year Anti-Japanese War. The entire work exposes the atrocities of the Japanese army in invading China, praises the arduous and indomitable resistance of the Chinese nation against Japanese aggression,s the complex contradictions within Chinese society, and portrays the ever-changing international landscape. It emphasizes the description of major events and the important political and strategic decision-making processes, successfully shaping the images of high-ranking figures such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Emperor Hirohito, Prince Konoe Fumimaro, Hideki Tojo, and Kenjiro Okamura, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. This monumental work is vast in scope, grand in structure, rich in historical materials, and epic in grandeur. It reveals many little-known historical facts and presents the author's unique insights into history. "The Fall of Nanjing" begins with Chiang Kai-shek hosting the Lushan Conference and ends with the fall of Nanjing, showcasing the historical scenes of the early stages of the war. It chronicles the KMT-CCP negotiations, the Battle of Pingxingguan, the 800 brave soldiers' heroic stand at the Yangtze River, the fall of Shanghai, and the Nanjing Massacre, among other events, making it highly significant in terms of historical documentation and educational value.