Shanghai, which had known little quiet in its turbulent history, fell to the Communists one sunny morning last week quietly.
Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city (pop. 6,000,000).
Run, Fight, Push. While a Nationalist spokesman was shouting words of defiance, something else was happening...
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