Post by jonbain on Jul 24, 2021 18:20:43 GMT
A missed crucial fact of history:
Japan's involvement in Manchuria started with them getting the contract to build the Manchurian railway. It was organized by a Russian named "Witte", and financed in Germany. (Total War: The Story of World War II, 1972 by Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint )
The Chinese stood to lose much money from their silk road profits and paid bandits to attack the railway workers. Initially the Japanese were acting in self defense. Their big mistake was to invade Singapore which they should have lost but for one New Zealander who betrayed the British air-force which got shot up on the ground.
Even then, the garrison out-numbered the invaders several times over, and this should go down as the British army's most appalling display on the battlefield ever.
Such is war.
Japan's involvement in Manchuria started with them getting the contract to build the Manchurian railway. It was organized by a Russian named "Witte", and financed in Germany. (Total War: The Story of World War II, 1972 by Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint )
The Chinese stood to lose much money from their silk road profits and paid bandits to attack the railway workers. Initially the Japanese were acting in self defense. Their big mistake was to invade Singapore which they should have lost but for one New Zealander who betrayed the British air-force which got shot up on the ground.
Even then, the garrison out-numbered the invaders several times over, and this should go down as the British army's most appalling display on the battlefield ever.
Such is war.