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Bezig met laden... Where Chiang Kai-Shek lost China : the Liao-Shen campaign, 1948door Harold M. Tanner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is military history as process as the author, in the course of telling the story of the campaign, examines how Lin Biao and his cadres converted a rag-tag guerrilla force into a conventional army capable of breaking the best forces the Chiang Kai-Shek had to commit to action. Besides transcending the stereotypes that attend to conventional Western understanding of the Chinese way of war, Tanner is also concerned with the struggles down to the current day to create a usable past from these events. He also does not shirk considering how the Communist methods of social mobilization contained within them the seeds of future political tragedies, whatever their contribution to the ultimate Communist victory. Highly recommended. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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 control of Manchuria failed, full-scale civil war broke out. By spring of 1946, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern, economically developed part of Manchuria, pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua (Sungari) River. But over the next two years, the tide would turn. The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces. This is the story of that campaign and its outcome, which were to have such far-reaching consequences"--Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)951.042History and Geography Asia China and region History 1912-1949 1927-1949LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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