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The Changsha fire
13 Nov 1938 — Panicked by Wuhan’s fall, the garrison fires the city ahead of an enemy still 100 km away: some 20,000–30,000 die in the accidental inferno. The war’s waste was not all inflicted by the enemy. (Changsha then repels three Japanese offensives, 1939–42 — the war’s stubborn hinge city.)
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Stalemate — Two Chinas at War in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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