"When did we start fighting?"
"If it's based on the War Letter, it's 1937; if it's based on blood and tears, it's 1931."
From the first gunshot fired at Peking University Camp on September 18, 1931, to the trembling handwriting on the letter of surrender in Nanjing on September 9, 1945. Fourteen years of war, twenty-two battles involving mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and 115,000 guerrilla attacks that penetrated the bone marrow.
This is a national epic engraved on the fault line of time. When the cherry blossoms in Tokyo fall towards the Yasukuni Shrine year after year, we can still hear the cry of more than 30 million souls under the ice of the Songhua River: "Those who suffer the disgrace of the country will lose their souls; those who dare to forget the heroes and martyrs are in vain!"
Reader comments
The characters in the book, whether they are soldiers fighting on the front lines, agents working behind enemy lines, or innocent people whose families and countries are shattered, all seem to have come from history, carrying their body temperature and breath with them. This book is the most worth immersing reading experience this autumn. It solemnly reminds us: some memories cannot be weathered; some screams must be heard by future generations.
The characters in the book, whether they are soldiers fighting on the front lines, agents working behind enemy lines, or innocent people whose families and countries are shattered, all seem to have come from history, carrying their body temperature and breath with them. This book is the most worth immersing reading experience this autumn. It solemnly reminds us: some memories cannot be weathered; some screams must be heard by future generations.