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Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45. / Barbara W. Tuchman.
LIBRA E745.S68 T8 1971
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LIBRA E745.S68 T8 1971
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LIBRA E745.S68 T8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946.
- Stilwell, Joseph Warren.
- World War, 1939-1945--China.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States--Foreign relations--China.
- United States.
- International relations.
- China.
- China--Foreign relations--United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 621 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portaits. ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : The Macmillan Company, [1971]
- Contents:
- Part One. 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 change, 1935-37; Military Attaché: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-39
- Part Two. 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; Stilwell 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.
- Notes:
- Map of China on front endpaper; map of Far East on back endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-552) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "First Printing".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has report by John K. Hutchins reprinted from the Book-of-the-Month Club News laid in.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy is "First Printing".
- Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.
- OCLC:
- 109537
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