Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day

by Paul French

Saturday, August 14, 1937--that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of "violent intensity." The typhoon passed, but what did strike Shanghai was a man-made typhoon of bombs and shrapnel that brought aerial death and destruction such as no city had ever seen before. The clock outside Cathay Hotel stopped at 4:27 p.m. precisely as the first bombs landed on the junction of the Nanking Road and the Bund; the second wave of explosions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0734398557
• ISBN13: 9780734398550
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Penguin Australia
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.0"