Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45 /

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed ''Vinegar Joe,'' Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the...

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Autor principal: Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Macmillan, c1971.
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300 |a xv, 621 p. :  |b il., mapas, retrs. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 541-552) e índice. 
586 |a Pulitzer Prize, General nonfiction, 1972. 
505 0 |a Foundations of an officer -- Visitor to Revolution: china, 1911 -- The Great War: St. Mihiel and Shantung -- Assignment to Peking: years of the warlords, 1920-23 -- The "can do" regiment and the rise of Chiang Kai-shek, 1926-29 -- "Vinegar Joe," 1929-35 -- Military Attaché: China's last chance, 1935-37 -- Military Attaché: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-39 -- The rush to prepare 1939-41 -- "I'll go where I'm sent", December 1941-February 1942 -- "A hell of a beating", March-May 1942 -- The client, June -- October 1942 -- "Peanut and I on a raft", August 1942 -- January 1943 -- The President's policy, January-May 1943 -- Stillwell must go, June-October 1943 -- China's hour at Cairo, November-December 1943 -- The road back, December 1943-July 1944 -- "The future of all Asia is at stake", June-September 1944 -- The limits of "can do", September-November 1944 -- "We ought to get out- now", 1945-46 -- Appendix: Road-building, 1921: Haphazard conversations by Major Joseph W. Stilwell. 
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