Sofia NowakSofia Nowak writes about the places where regional wars spill over into global crises. She has spent years studying how conflict in East Asia reshaped the twentieth century, focusing on the people who lived through occupation, bombardment, and uncertin diplomacy. Her work draws on political history, military records, and contemporary reporting to follow events from the conference table to the bomb shelter. Growing up near a major Second World War memorial, she learned early how different societies remember the same battles in sharply different ways. That curiosity feeds her interest in how timelines are drawn, whose suffering is counted, and which front lines are quietly labelled peripheral until it is too late. In this book, she brings readers into China's wartime capitals, League of Nations corridors, Soviet planning rooms, and US newspaper offices to show how an Asian conflict became the hinge of a global war. Read More Read Less