Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China The Liao-Shen Campaign 1948

Name: Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China The Liao-Shen Campaign 1948
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ISBN: 9780253016928

ISBN-10: 0253016924

ISBN-13: 9780253016928

Edition: 2015

Authors: Harold M. Tanner

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The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was "lost." Despite their significance, there have been few studies in English of the war's major campaigns. The Liao-Shen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of China’s northeast. After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria, Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area. China’s largest industrial base and a major source of coal, Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports (both still under Soviet control). When American mediation over…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English