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As the City Burns
The people of Shanghai watch smoke rise as Japanese shells rain down over their homes in November 1937. Japan's invasion of China had already begun and the coastal cosmopolis would soon fall; Japan turned its expansionist gaze to other corners of Asia as well.

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