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The secret army : Chiang Kai-shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle / Richard M. Gibson with Wenhua Chen.
Van Pelt Library HV5840.B93 G53 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Richard M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
- Chiang, Kai-shek.
- Drug traffic--Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia).
- Drug traffic.
- China--History--1949-1976.
- China.
- History.
- Burma--History--1948-.
- Burma.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 338 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Tower Singapore : John Wiley & Sons (Asia) ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Retreat from Yunnan 1
- Chapter 2 Sorting Things Out in Tachilek 15
- Chapter 3 Lieutenant General Li Mi 29
- Chapter 4 Li Mi and His American Friends 45
- Chapter 5 Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army 57
- Chapter 6 Attacking Yunnan 69
- Chapter 7 Washington Opts Out 87
- Chapter 8 Li Mi's Army Settles into Burma 97
- Chapter 9 Washington Cuts Its Losses 113
- Chapter 10 Southern Strategy and Karen Allies 121
- Chapter 11 The Road to the United Nations 131
- Chapter 12 The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity 139
- Chapter 13 First Evacuation from Burma 153
- Chapter 14 Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army 165
- Chapter 15 A Resurgent KMT 181
- Chapter 16 Operation Mekong: Sino- Burmese Forces Rout the KMT 191
- Chapter 17 Air Battle Over Burma and American Weapons 205
- Chapter 18 The Second KMT Evacuation 213
- Chapter 19 Removing KMT Remnants from Laos 225
- Chapter 20 Nationalist Chinese Armies in Thailand 235
- Chapter 21 Thailand's Troublesome Guests 251
- Chapter 22 Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense 265
- Chapter 23 Resettlement in Thailand 281
- Chapter 24 Soldiering on for Thailand 293
- Chapter 25 Postscript 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780470830185 :
- 0470830182
- OCLC:
- 707264041
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