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Loading... Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45by Barbara W. Tuchman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1185. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, by Barbara W. Tuchman (27 Sep 1972) I found this an excellent and muchly moving reading experience, tho I confess this was partly because it was confrmatory of much I so passionately argued in 1952--when I was not sure that I was sure I was right, altho the book only covers events till Stilwell left China and India on Oct 26, 1944, he having been recalled at Chiang's demand. It paints a clear picture of the deficiencies of Chiang, and shows that the Chiang regime could not last in China, just as I claimed in 1952, at the height of the McCarthy years. (  ) Schmerguls | Apr 16, 2009 |  .The hardbound copy brings fine maps on the end pages and inside, photographs, the text is fine Tuchman. She is sympathetic to Stillwell in his conflict with Chiang Kai-shek, but he has his detractors. The story is important background to even today's critical relationship with China. Amazon reviewers - and there are few - had mixed views of Stillwellhttp://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000GYA7PI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 ( ) carterchristian1 | Jan 23, 2009 | Depressing account of a talented but disagreeable soldier who was definitely the wrong man in the wrong place for Chinese-American relations in WWII. (  ) antiquary | Nov 27, 2007 | The first book you should read about 'who lost China'. Another great, and ultimately tragic, narrative by Barbara Tuchman. ( ) wyrdchao | Aug 18, 2007 | Barbara Tuchman deservedly won a Pulitzer for this biography of an outspoken US WWII general fighting in, for and against Kuomintang China. As an officer of the China-based 15th US infantry and later as military attaché and US military pointman on China, Stilwell was an eyewitness of the end of the Chinese empire up to the Chinese Civil War. The biography is especially valuable regarding the management and subtle power plays of client rulers. Stilwell as US emissary was flatterred, challenged, ignored, played and frustrated by China's homegrown dictator Chiang Kai-Shek (codenamed "peanut" by Stilwell). The negative influence of US domestic politics on a consistent foreign policy is also highlighted by Tuchman who is a master in writing history books (here: WWII) as a commentary on current affairs (here: the Vietnam War). (  )1  jcbrunner | Feb 1, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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