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The siege of Changchun
Jun–Oct 1948 — Lin Biao starves the trapped garrison out: civilians who try to leave are long refused passage through the lines, and famine kills of the order of 150,000 people. The city surrenders without an assault. A victory of the war’s cruelest kind — named here as memory, not triumph.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — The Three Campaigns in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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