Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

by Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim

• ISBN13: 9780026202909
• ISBN10: 0026202905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1971-02-01
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co

Summary

Joseph Stilwell, military attache to China from 1935 to 1939 and commander of U.S. forces and Allied Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek from 1942 to 1944, was a man who loved China deeply, spoke its language, and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Using the life of Stilwell, Barbara W. Tuchman explores the history of China from the Revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from both Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe" is both an account of American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell in 1972 and for The Guns of August in 1963. An acclaimed historian, her many books include A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, The Zimmerman Telegraph, and The March of Folly

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. v
Foreword	p. xi
Prologue: The Crisis	p. 1
Foundations of an Officer	p. 9
Visitor to Revolution: China, 1911	p. 25
The Great War: St. Mihiel and Shantung	p. 42
Assignment to Peking: Years of the Warlords, 1920-23	p. 61
The "Can Do" Regiment and the Rise of Chiang Kai-shek, 1926-29	p. 90
"Vinegar Joe," 1929-35	p. 123
Military Attache: China's Last Chance, 1935-37	p. 143
Military Attache: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-39	p. 164
The Rush to Prepare 1939-41	p. 203
"I'll Go Where I'm Sent" December 1941-February 1942	p. 229
"A Hell of a Beating" March-May 1942	p. 256
The Client June-October 1942	p. 301
"Peanut and I on a raft" August 1942-January 1943	p. 326
The President's Policy January-May 1943	p. 349
Stilwell Must Go June-October 1943	p. 375
China's Hour at Cairo November-December 1943	p. 396
The Road Back December 1943-July 1944	p. 415
"The Future of All Asia Is at Stake" June-September 1944	p. 455
The Limits of "Can Do" September-November 1944	p. 483
"We Ought to Get Out--Now" 1945-46	p. 510
Road-Building, 1921: Haphazard Conversations by Major Joseph W. Stilwell	p. 535
Bibliography and Other Sources	p. 541
Notes	p. 553
Index	p. 593
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