WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.
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Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Boys, History, Bildungsromans, Engels, British, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Shanghai (china), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, media tie-in, Garçons, Romans, nouvelles, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, war & military, China, fiction, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924Places
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1991, V. Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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"WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund."
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