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235. China and World War II (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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Introduction

War isn't like wars in history books. War is a handful of lost and terrified men in the mountains, shooting at something moving in the undergrowth. War is waiting for days with nothing to do, shouting down a dead telephone,. going without sleep or sex or a wash. The great poet was talking on the b b c about his experience of the second world war in china - which had not started yet according to traditional chronology.

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