Peter Harmsen is the author of the New York Times best seller Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze and Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City. He has been a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades. He has reported from nearly every corner of the region, including Mongolia and North Korea.
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In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared... SEE MORE