You barely see anything about the Chinese occupation, the fight in Africa, the French resistance, or anything dealing with the Italians. I know these games are largely a propaganda device, since it's really the last time America looked good, but you'd think someone would fund these games.
If Americans are making the games, the games are going to be about Americans. The French resistance were largely a bunch of uneducated hick yahoos who got a lot of innocent people killed, see the film "The Sorrow and the Pity" for what it was like.
Anything about China is a problem because the CPC likes to pretend it fought off the Japanese while in reality it hid in the hills and waited for the war to be over. Moreover most of the source material is in Chinese, so there's a barrier there. But the Battle of Shanghai took place right in front of international observers and there are English newspapers full of blow-by-blow accounts. Tons of photos taken on the spot, interviews with both sides commmanders, etc. Totally forgotten today. Imagine the Battle of Stalingrad, but in the middle of town there is an off-limits neutral zone full of curious westerners. That's what it was like.
TIL that the Hundred Regiment Offensive was not a months long offensive operation involving 200,000 soldiers and resulting in as many as 40,000 Japanese and collaborator casualties. It was, in fact, a pleasant mountain camping trip.
The CCP didn't "wait for the war to be over" any more than Soviet and Yugoslavian partisans "waited for the war to be over."
The KMT fought the Japanese hard for eight years. Yay on the CPC for launching a single campaign.
In any three-sided fight, the right move is to let your two enemies fight until they exhaust themselves, and then swoop in at the last minute to grab the victory. It worked, didn't it?
My bad for assuming you understand the concept of an example.
I'm something of a student of the era, and the idea that the CPC contributed anything substantial to beating the Japanese is ludicrous. They did the smart thing and sat out the war, and beat the crap out of the KMT as soon as the Japanese were gone. How do you argue with a winning strategy?
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Well of course in China the 1937-1945 war is constantly on every screen. The CPC likes to keep the memory of the war fresh, so they can always play "blame the foreigner" when things go wrong.
full movie from last year "The Eight Hundred" about the battle of Shanghai
I haven't seen it yet but the trailer made it look brutal af