Mark R. Peattie
Author of Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941
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For the average reader of history this will be a serious jag to their expectations. If they are aware of China's war with Japan at all, they will have probably learned about it through the prism of Barbara Tuchman's biography of "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and have picked up the dismissive opinion of the Nationalist war effort. This book is anything but dismissive of that effort, but the participants are collectively critical of Tokyo's rudimentary sense of strategy. I read this as an inter-library loan but I'm feeling like I actually have to own a copy.… (more)