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Ebook About Barbara 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 ReviewBook Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 Review :
I knew nothing about China in WWII until I read this book. Yet the Japanese incursion into China was pretty much what this half of the war was about, just as the German invasion of Russia was the main event of the other half.But, wow, China is a huge country with a huge history. I started off with a biography of the Empress Dowager by Jung Chang, which I recommend, with reservations, as a very useful prelude to this book (if like me you don't know the history of China). Jung Chang's book is a little too obviously bent on reforming the image of the Empress Dowager, but it's nevertheless to me a nice idea to get one's history from biography. The Empress died just three years before Stilwell first set foot in China, so I found it a good segue and culturally informative.So back to this one. Our main protagonists are Stilwell and, yes, Chiang Kai-Shek. The author does a good job of telling the big story - China's relative absence in WWII - by contrasting these two people. Stilwell is there to do a job: fight Japan with Chinese soldiers. Chiang has a very different purpose: fight Chinese communist soldiers with Chinese nationalist soldiers after the war is over - with American arms from Lend-Lease. He's going to let the Allies handle the Japanese - yes, even though they occupy the entire Chinese coast. One reason the story can take up hundreds of pages is that Chiang, naturally, never said this directly. It's all in his holding back of soldiers and arms and the way he would hem and haw all those years.Another story the author tells well is of the hoodwinking of the American public and, yes, president, particularly by Chiang's wife but also by the early American press. By the time the scales fall from FDR's eyes, it's too late for Stilwell to be of use.I did not know anything about Stilwell. Truly a waste of a talented leader. By the time the book is over you'll wonder why he was there at all - and why were we? One will never know exactly what would have happened, but we had at least two reasonable possibilities it seems: (A) ignore mainland China earlier or (B) support the communists. If (A), Stilwell could have been put to so much better use. If (B), it seems he was willing to lead and at least some of them were willing to follow. It would have made for fascinating history and perhaps a better outcome after the revolution (the reality could hardly be worse).My usual complaint about these books: I need more maps. Maybe it's just me, but if a whole chapter is going to be about troop movements I want a map for every paragraph. Also, a little repetitive. Not horribly, but more than I need.By the way, you might find the middle sections far too detailed, but this does give the reality of Stilwell's expenditure of energy in trying to assist a nearly hopeless cause. “In the end China went her own way as if the Americans had never come.”Barbara Tuchman’s final remark about a country we do not yet know and may never but opinions flare.The beauty of her long work following Joe Stilwell through his 1911-1945 engagement with China is Stilwell was there in a very full sense when the 20th century China was being formed from the passage of the Imperial to the Rebel and the War Lords and an attempted Sun Yat-sen’s dreams to the parceling up for dominate foreign powers for WWI debts to Chiang Kai-shek and his Madam and Zhou Enlai and Mao Ze Tong and American abandonment and resulting hysteria. Her rendering of the Chinese and the American and FDR’s hopes for a four partite world order, and the unraveling of that, make history entreating and the brutality and intrigue of real warfare from a generals perspective revealing. A story worth knowing.A personal note: I am old enough to yet hold silver screen images of Madam Chiang’s beauty in the newsreels we all sat through, and vague recall of the fantasies the Luce media and the China Lobby were spinning and yet later the charges of a government saturated with Communists Agents. Then as now ‘China’ provoked mixed feelings – a small item in the tale but a lingering one, better understood now as Joe Stilwell would have felt it.Do read this rich work. 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