Jianghan Lament: The Battle of Wuhan

Author: Fang Zhijin
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The Wuchang Defense War from June to November 1938 was the largest battle in the history of China's War of Resistance, where both Chinese and Japanese forces gathered the largest number of troops and suffered the highest casualties. The book describes how the Chinese army, with the designated lines of Pingxiang, Tonggu, Wuning, Ruichang, Tianjiazhen, Guangji, Luotian, Macheng, Huang'an, and Wushengguan as the decisive zone, advanced to mountain positions on the left bank of the Ganjiang River, along the Qingjiang River from Jiujiang, and along the northern bank of the river from Hubei to Anhui and Henan borders, maintaining peripheral operations to defend the greater Wuhan. It depicts the heroic and tragic scenes of loyal Chinese officers and soldiers fighting to the death with inferior equipment, while also providing a detailed description of the internal conflicts within the Nationalist Party and the military and political leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, revealing the deeper reasons for the ultimate failure of the Wuchang Campaign.