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Still Time To Die

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE NATURE OF THE BATTLEFIELD i. Falsehood 2. Uncertainty 3. Friction 4. Courage 5. Resolution 6. Exertion 7. Brotherhood and Loneliness 8. Destruction CHINESE BATTLEFIELDS Chapter I. The Death of a City 37 1. The dangerous position of China 37 2. The smell and feel of a city; its transmutation in war 42 3. War should be treated with respect 44 4. Defeat corrodes the soul 51 5. War breeds suspicion 54 6 .War arouses passions 59 7. People have blind natural impulses 68 8. Non-combatants are often trapped 78 9. A city dies 83 Chapter II. The Retreat from Hsuchow 88 1. The Japanese trap 88 2. A night march 91 3. "War is the province of chance" 94 4. The atmosphere of retreat 97 5. A chance meeting with the enemy 101 6. History repeats itself 105 7. Breaking through 107 8. "One can cut off a slice of bread, but not an army" 113 Chapter III. The Battle of The Yellow River 122 (The strange nature of a battlefield as seen from headquarters) 1. A river betrays China 122 2. What soldiers feel as they approach the battlefield 125 3. How it feels to be surprised 130 4. New battlefields are always strange and confusing 133 5. The problems of a general 136 6. Battles take sudd

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