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It's a long way to tip our airy. It's a long way to tip our area

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Goodbye, Piccadilly.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to History of the Second World War.

Episode 52, the second Sino-Japanese War Part 3, Shanghai.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Gunner, Azra, Scott, Anton, and Rick, who have chosen

to support this podcast on Patreon, where they now get access to special

ad-free versions of all of the podcast episodes, plus special patron-only episodes released roughly

every month. If that sounds interesting to you, head on over to History of the Second World War.com

slash members to find out more information. For three months, starting in mid-August 1937, one of the largest battles of the

Second Sino-Japanese War would rage in and around Shanghai. Hundreds of thousands of troops would

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