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The battle for China : essays on the military history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 / edited by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Campaigns--China.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- China--History, Military--1912-1949.
- China.
- Japan--History, Military--1868-1945.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (664 pages) : 11 illustrations, 14 maps
- Other Title:
- Battle for China
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented from the perspective of the West. Departing from this tradition, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political, economic, and cultural realms. The volume's diverse contributors have taken pains to sustain a scholarly, dispassionate tone throughout their analyses of the course and the nature of military operations, from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the final campaigns of 1945. They present Western involvement in Sino-Japanese contexts, and establish the war's place in World War II and world history in general.
- Contents:
- Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Hans van de Ven and Edward Drea
- An overview of major military campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven
- The dragon's seed : origins of the war / Mark R. Peattie
- The Nationalist Army on the eve of the war / Chang Jui-te
- The Japanese Army on the eve of the war / Edward J. Drea
- Chiang Kai-shek and the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing / Yang Tianshi
- Japanese operations from July to December 1937 / Hattori Satoshi with Edward Drea
- The defense of the Central Yangtze / Stephen MacKinnon
- The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China, 1938-1941 / Tobe Ryoichi
- The Japanese air campaigns in China, 1937-1945 / Hagiwara Mitsuru
- The great bombing of Chongqing and the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edna Tow
- China's quest for foreign military aid / Zhang Baijia
- Nationalist and communist guerrilla warfare in North China / Yang Kuisong
- Japanese combat morale : a case study of the Thirty-Seventh Division / Kawano Hitoshi
- Japanese operations in Yunnan and North Burma / Asano Toyomi
- Chinese operations in Yunnan and Central Burma / Zang Yunhu
- The Ichigō offensive / Hara Takeshi
- The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese military's response to Operation Ichigō / Wang Qisheng
- Linkages between the China and Pacific wars / Tohmatsu Haruo
- The Sino-Japanese War in history / Hans van de Ven
- The Sino-Japanese War in the context of world history / Ronald Spector.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
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