[ZHEJIANG-JIANGXI CAMPAIGN].

浙贑戰記. [Sekkan senki].<BR> [Record of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign].

[Japan]. 中支派遣登部隊本部 [Chushi Haken Nobori-butai Honbu]. Koki 2603 [ 1943]. Stock ID #221445

Maps, 4 tipped-in colour plates, illustrated throughout with black and white photographic illustrations, unpaginated [74pp], 23.7 x 33cm, oblong hardback with pictorial paper covered boards. Hinges strengthened with paper tape, endpapers a little marked, lower endpaper torn with loss at upper corner, boards a little worn, marked and lifting a little. Contents clean and sound.

This is a comprehensive official campaign record of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign, which took place in the vicinity of Zhejiang province and Jiangxi province between May and September 1942. The book was published by the headquarters of the 13th Army (Noboru Butai, 登部隊) and dedicated to those who sacrificed their lives during the campaign. The campaign was aimed at attacking Chinese airfields in Zhejiang and Jiangxi areas after the Doolittle Air Raid in April 1942. Although the Japanese troops claimed victory, they struggled and faced difficulties with complex geography and climate in the area.

The book opens with words given by an Imperial family member and the commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army, General Hata. This book includes numerous photographic illustrations as well as 4 beautiful colour art illustration plates of local sceneries. The chronology of the campaign is printed at the end as well as a notice that a documentary film which covers the campaign, Tairiku Shin Sanjo (大陸新戦場, A New Front Line in the Continent) received a recommendation from the Ministry of Education.

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