China's war with Japan: 1937 - 1945 ; the struggle for survival

Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions...

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1. Verfasser: Mitter, Rana 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Allen Lane 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today. With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's new book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict. He writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Mitter puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan's "failure" to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia, and which dictated the course of so much of the Second World War
Beschreibung:XXI, 457 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9781846140105