Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American. General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman’s groundbreaking narrative follows Stilwell from the time he arrived in China during the Revolution of 1911, through his tours of duty in Peking and Tientsin in the 1920s and ’30s, to his return as theater commander in World War II, when the Nationalist government faced attack from both Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Peopled by warlords, ambassadors, and missionaries, this classic biography of the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe” sparkles with Tuchman’s genius for animating the people who shaped history. Praise for Stilwell and the American Experience in China “Tuchman’s best book . . . so large in scope, so crammed with information, so clear in exposition, so assured in tone that one is tempted to say it is not a book but an education.”—The New Yorker “The most interesting and informative book on U.S.–China relations . . . a brilliant, lucid and authentic account.”—The Nation “A fantastic and complex story finely told.”—The New York Times Book Review |
Contents
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China 1911 | 34 |
St Mihiel and Shantung | 55 |
Years of the Warlords 192023 | 79 |
The Can Do Regiment and the Rise of Chiang Kaishek | 129 |
Vinegar Joe 192935 | 152 |
Chinas Last Chance 193537 | 176 |
SinoJapanese War 193739 | 200 |
Peanut and I on a Raft August 1942January 1943 | 393 |
The Presidents Policy JanuaryMay 1943 | 420 |
Stilwell Must Go JuneOctober 1943 | 450 |
Chinas Hour at Cairo NovemberDecember 1943 | 475 |
The Road Back December 1943July 1944 | 498 |
The Future of All Asia Is at Stake JuneSeptember 1944 | 547 |
The Limits of Can Do SeptemberNovember 1944 | 579 |
We ought to Get OutNow 194546 | 611 |
PART | 245 |
The Rush to Prepare 193941 | 247 |
IO Ill Go Where Im Sent December 1941February 1942 | 278 |
A Hell of a Beating MarchMay 1942 | 310 |
The Client JuneOctober 1942 | 364 |
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