world war II

Spring Flower A Tale of Two Rivers interview
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Spring Flower: A Tale of Two Rivers. Interview with Richard Perkins

Spring Flower: A Tale of Two Rivers is the autobiography of Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins. Jean was given up for adoption to a missionary couple, Dr. … Read more

Frode-Ziebell-Olsen
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Interview with Frode Z. Olsen, author of ‘Fighting for Two Kings’, a story of the Danish people in Hong Kong during the Japanese invasion in December 1941

Frode Ziebell Olsen is a Danish writer of novels and historical documentary books. He retired in 2013 as Detective Chief Superintendent after thirty-seven year’s service … Read more

Guo ke interview
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Guo Ke, director of “Twenty Two”, Exclusive Interview

Guo Ke Interview: Twenty Two is a Chinese documentary about 22 Chinese ‘comfort women’, victims of sexual enslavement by Japanese soldiers during the WWII The … Read more

The Flying Tigers: from Chinese pilots training camp in Arizona to the war in China against Japan
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24 rare images of The Flying Tigers: from Chinese pilots training camp in Arizona to the war in China against Japan

Images of The Flying Tigers Many Chinese (mostly coming from Guangdong) joined the American Flying Tigers in Yunnan to fight Japanese invading forces. The Chinese … Read more

Suppuku
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Japanese officer performing seppuku during World War II

After the defeat of the Second World War II, many Japanese officers performed the ritual suicide by disembowelment, called in Japanese Suppuku (stomach-cutting). They chose … Read more

henan-famine
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30 dramatic images of the 1942 Henan famine

Henan Province was hit by a terrible famine between the summer of 1942 and the spring of 1943 that led to the death of 3 … Read more

images of the Japanese experiment unit 731 in China
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35 rare images of the infamous Japanese experiment unit 731 in China

Unit 731 (731部隊), based in the Pingfang district of Harbin and led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro Ishii, was a covert biological warfare research … Read more