Bloody Saturday

Shanghai's Darkest Day: Penguin Specials

Paul French

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Penguin Random House Australia
07 August 2017

True war & combat stories

Bloody Saturday reconstructs the events of that dreadful day from eyewitness accounts.

Saturday, August 14, 1937 - that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of 'violent intensity'. The typhoon passed, but what did strike Shanghai was a man-made typhoon of bombs and shrapnel that brought aerial death and destruction such as no city had ever seen before. The clock outside the Cathay Hotel stopped at 4.27 p.m. precisely as the first bombs landed on the junction of the Nanking Road and the Bund; the second wave of explosions struck the dense crowds outside the Great World amusement centre in the French Concession.

Bloody Saturday reconstructs the events of that dreadful day from eyewitness accounts.

By: Paul French
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 179mm, Width: 112mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 86g
ISBN: 9780734398550
ISBN 10: 0734398557
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 07 August 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul French is the author of the New York Times bestseller Midnight in Peking, currently being developed as a series for TV. His upcoming book City of Devils- A Shanghai Noir is centered on the dancehalls, casinos and cabarets of wartime Shanghai.

Reviews for Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day: Penguin Specials

A gripping page turner, it brings the events to life with a tremendous accumulation of detail and anecdote. . . . French is clearly immersed in the history of the period. --South China Morning Post Never less than fascinating . . . one of the best portraits of between-the-wars China that has yet been written. --Wall Street Journal on Midnight in Peking