Tower of Skulls

From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942

Ranked #75 in Philippines History

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary... more

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