{"id":241,"date":"2015-06-14T14:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-06-14T14:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:08:42","slug":"peter-harmsen-on-famine-sword-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Peter Harmsen on Famine, Sword, and Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very grateful for Peter Harmsen&#8217;s kind words about <em>Famine, Sword, and Fire<\/em>. His book, <em>Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze<\/em> is available on Amazon.com and his next book,\u00a0<em>Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City,<\/em> is due out this October.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe history of the China, Burma, India Theater has never got the attention it deserves in the otherwise voluminous literature about World War II. Dan Jackson\u2019s new book is a valuable contribution towards filling this gap, mixing the general\u2019s bird\u2019s-eye view with the perspective of the ordinary soldiers and airmen who fought and died in some of the world\u2019s most inhospitable terrain. It&#8217;s an added strength that Mr. Jackson\u2019s background as a military pilot gives him a natural familiarity with the subject matter that few professional historians can match.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Peter Harmsen, author of <em>Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very grateful for Peter Harmsen&#8217;s kind words about Famine, Sword, and Fire. His book, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze is available on Amazon.com and his next book,\u00a0Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City, is due out this October. \u201cThe history of the China, Burma, India Theater has never got the attention it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=241\" class=\"themebutton3\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}