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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mitter, Rana (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Forgotten ally [Texte imprimé] : China's World War II, 1937-1945 / Rana Mitter
Édition : 1st U.S. ed.
Publication : Boston : Mariner books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, copyright 2013
Description matérielle : xii, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane in 2013 under title 'China's war
with Japan, 1937-1945'. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-425) and index
"For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten.
China was the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and
Great Britain, yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue
remains little known in the West. In this emotionally gripping book, made possible
through access to newly unsealed Chinese archives, Rana Mitter unfurls the story of
China's World War II as never before and rewrites the larger history of the war in
the process. He focuses his narrative on three towering leaders -- Chiang Kai-shek,
Mao Zedong, and the lesser-known collaborator Wang Jingwei -- and extends the timeline
of the war back to 1937, when Japanese and Chinese troops began to clash, fully two
years before Hitler invaded Poland. Unparalleled in its research and scope, Forgotten
Ally is a sweeping, character-driven history that will be essential reading not only
for anyone with an interest in World War II, but also for those seeking to understand
today's China, where, as Mitter reveals, the echoes of the war still reverberate"
Sujet(s) : Guerre sino-japonaise (1937-1945)
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Chine
Indice(s) Dewey :
951.042 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Chine - 1927-1949
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780618894253 (erroné). - ISBN 061889425X (erroné). - ISBN 9780544334502. - ISBN
0544334507 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468388024
Notice n° :
FRBNF46838802
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The path to war: As close as lips and teeth : China's fall, Japan's rise ; A new revolution
; The path to confrontation ; Disaster: Thirty-seven days in summer : the outbreak
of war ; The battle for Shanghai ; Refugees and resistance ; Massacre at Nanjing ;
The battle of Taierzhuang ; The deadly river ; Resisting alone: "A sort of wartime
normal" ; Flight into the unknown ; The road to Pearl Harbor ; The poisoned alliance
; Destination Burma ; Hunger in Henan ; States of terror ; Conference at Cairo ; One
war, two fronts ; Showdown with Stilwell ; Unexpected victory ; Epilogue: The enduring
war.
