Book unveils untold chapters of war By Yang Feiyue | China Daily | Updated: 2025-09-01 07:28

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/01/WS68b4dab7a3108622abc9e1b1.html British historian highlights China's pivotal resistance and challenges Eurocentric timelines of history, Yang Feiyue reports. When British historian Richard Overy set out to write about World War II from a new perspective, he was acutely aware that he was stepping into a field saturated with sweeping accounts, well-trodden battle narratives, and Euro-American interpretations that have long dominated the historiography.