

How Texaco Helped Franco Win the Spanish Civil War
The tale of Trokild Rieber, the "barrel-chested, square-jawed" Norwegian-American oil-baron who not only supplied the Spanish...


Chinese Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Gary Jones shines a light on a small, but nonetheless fascinating corner of the Spanish Civil War in reporting on the contribution of the...


'China's war with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival' by Rana Mitter
Revisiting an earlier book review here, but I thought it interesting how the pre-Jack Ma SCMP offered a surprisingly critical take on the...


Posters about "Japanese dwarves"
More specifically this is a website dedicated to collecting KMT propaganda from the Second Sino-Japanese War, and it is fantastic....


The Meaning of 'Totalitarian'
"Anne Applebaum talks to us like we're stupid. And it's awesome." So says The Atlantic. And they're not wrong....