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Marco Polo Bridge
7 Jul 1937 — A night exercise, a missing soldier, an exchange of fire at the Lugou bridge southwest of Beiping — the local incident neither government quite chooses becomes eight years of war. This time Chiang does not back down: “the limits of endurance have been reached.”
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Japanese War Begins in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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