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Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman

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Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman
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Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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In this Pulitzer Prize winning biography of "Vinegar Joe," Barbara Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story. Tuchman uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attacheĢ to China in 1935 to 1939 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground
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