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Turning point · The Road to War, 1931–1941
Marco Polo Bridge
7 Jul 1937 — A missing soldier and a night skirmish at a bridge outside Peking escalate, unplanned, into full-scale war. Neither government orders it; neither can stop it.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — China: The War Nobody Declared in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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