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Books by 萨苏
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The Iron Tide of Northern Shaanxi: From the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army 铁流陕北：从红军到八路军
From the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army, this work offers a fresh perspective and an analysis of historical sources to recreate a little-known history of the Long March, full of vivid human stories. The Iron Current in Northern Shaanxi: From the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army is an illustrated documentary account of the Red Army's Long March. Taking a new perspective that moves from north to south across the region, it examines international reports on the red bases in northern China durin
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Eagles Breaking Through Northern Myanmar: The Chinese Expeditionary Force's Return Home, Compared Through Chinese and Japanese Historical Records 突破缅北的鹰：中日史料对照下的中国驻印军归国之路
On the Asian front of World War II, there were three battles the Japanese called “gyokusai battles,” in which the Japanese army was completely wiped out: the Tengchong Campaign, the Songshan Campaign, and the Myitkyina Campaign. All three took place during the Chinese Expeditionary Force's campaign to return home. In late 1943, the Chinese Expeditionary Force set out from Ledo, India, and began the campaign in northern Burma to open the China-India Road. Sasu, a scholar living in Japan, was the
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The Truest War of Resistance: The Longest Resistance, Fourteen Years in Northeast China Through Japanese Sources, Volumes One and Two 最真的抗战·最漫长的抵抗从日方史料解读东北抗战十四年(上下)
This is a documentary work of military history. Using more than four hundred photographs and maps from the Japanese side, collected by the author in Japan for the first time, the book compares and verifies the historical information they contain against Chinese and Japanese sources. It reveals the arduous, unyielding resistance mounted in Northeast China from 1931 to 1945 by the regular Northeastern Army, the Northeastern Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army.
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Step Back and Find a Home: Uncovering China's War of Resistance Through Japanese Sources 退后一步是家园：从日本史料揭秘中国抗战
Sasu writes with lively wit, bringing this weighty and stirring period of history vividly to life for readers. The book also preserves a wealth of historical photographs taken by the Japanese. By cross-referencing Japanese sources with Chinese records, it reconstructs or fills in gaps in many precious accounts of Chinese soldiers and civilians resisting the enemy and defending their country. Much of the Japanese material Sasu uses consists of long-forgotten veterans' memoirs, wartime reports, an
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Sasu Doesn't Believe in History 萨苏不信史
Not Believing the Official Record Doesn't Mean Rejecting History tells, in a distinctive and entertaining way, stories that seem utterly unbelievable and never made it into the history books, yet somehow make perfect sense on closer inspection. The “joking” Marquis of Haihun, the delinquent Cao Cao, the emperor who “could do nothing but rule,” a queen more formidable than Mi Yue, and the possibility that Yang Guifei was Iranian! Who would dare compete with the two empress dowagers for a husband'
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Ice and Blood: A Crime Scene at -30°C 冰血：零下30℃的刑侦现场
This collection of short detective and suspense stories recounts the deadly clashes between criminals and public security officers and border troops in Northeast China. It describes the investigations of seven major, bizarre criminal cases, with gripping twists and turns that make for compelling reading. Based on the recollections of the officers who handled the cases and on their case files, the stories offer vivid, realistic portrayals. Every grisly, violent, and brutal detail is true. Their t
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