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In his illuminating and knowledgeable book, "The Ghosts of Martyrs Square," Young explores those two contradictory strands by looking at a crucial period of Lebanese history, 2005 to 2009.
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But as Rana Mitter shows in his illuminating and meticulously researched new book about the Sino-Japanese war, not only did Chinese history not end with the fall of Nanjing, but in many ways the war helped to create modern China.
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