(AP) Melitta Stein's May 21 Free for All letter, "These articles on WWII events needed context," suggested that World War II began ... traces back to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7 ...

The Chinese army engages the Japanese at Lugou Bridge, or Marco Polo Bridge ... I stress this because the distortion of the history of World War II in the West is something intellectually shameful ...

For Japan, World War II grew from a conflict historians call the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Second Sino-Japanese War began in earnest in 1937 with a battle called the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

China’s planned military parade to mark the end of the second world war is likely to be held ... be held at a square next to Beijing’s Marco Polo bridge, rather than at Tiananmen Square ...

"Over this river there is a very fine stone bridge, so fine indeed, that it has very few equals in the world." The Diary of Marco Polo The Marco ... the first shot of the War of Resistance Against ...

in The Travels of Marco Polo, as “a very fine stone bridge, so fine indeed, that it has very few equals in the world”. The Chinese call the stone arch bridge, 268 metres (880ft) long and 15 ...