Reddit reviews Second World War, The

because: these information emerged much after the incidents? The japaneese did horrible things during the war. But tired of this recent trend of the immediate Bosa bashing following a Japan in WW2 post ...

Edit: Also, read http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Second-World-Antony-Beevor/dp/0297844970 which details how the Japaneese went out of the way to hide it specifically from Bose when he was visiting the Andamans ...

If you are looking for something about WWII and want to keep it as simple as possible I recommend Antony Beevors new book called The second world war.

He has also written some other books on different WWII topics if you really want to know all the details:

• About the Battle of Stalingrad
  
  
• About D-Day and Operation Overlord
  
  
• About the Battle of Berlin
  
  
• About the Spanish Civil War
  
  
• About the Battle of Crete
  
  I have them all and I really recommend them if you want to keep things simple yet informative.

I don't know if it was a pact as much as Mao betraying Koumintang in an attempt to have Koumintang and the Japanese wear each other out, leaving the communist faction the strongest. It worked, and millions or tens of millions of Chinese civilians were the victims of that power play.

Source can be this book for instance https://www.amazon.co.uk/Second-World-War-Antony-Beevor/dp/0297844970

I don't know what the current Chinese official history says, but most likely not the truth. China is very afraid of any kind of historical facts undermining the legitimacy of the Communist party and their current and previous actions.

I learned this tidbit from Antony Beevor's book The Second World War.

The internet seems very sparse on information regarding such a remarkable story; searches on Google and DuckDuckGo only bring up short mentions at best just repeating the same few lines.

Apparently, Yang Kyoungjong was one of a few Korean nationals captured, and the only one of them to make it to the US, where he died in 1992, having never spoken a word of his past.