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File Size: 92460 KB
Print Length: 686 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812986202
Publisher: Random House; Reprint edition (January 24, 2017)
Publication Date: January 24, 2017
Sold by: Random House LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00KUQITNE
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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.â€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.
This terrific book by the late Barbara Tuchman is a must for history and military buffs, but especially for anyone who wants to understand the overthrow of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang by the communists after the WWII. I came away with a much higher appreciation for Stilwell's military talents, sense of duty and character. He could have successfully commanded in any of the theaters of the war, but do to the fact he was a china expert and fluent in Chinese, his talents were wasted on a mission impossible in China. This is not to distract from his great accomplishments, especially given that Chiang's unchangeable strategy was to hunker down, let the Americans win the war, and not fight the Japanese, preserving the troops and materials for the fight with the communists after Japan was defeated. Given that he was afraid that the reform of the Army and increase in effectiveness of his divisions would raise a rival to overthrow him, Stilwell had no chance of developing the Nationalist Army into an effective force to fight Japan, his main objective. Chiang was so out of touch and shielded from bad news, that he had no idea how bad the corruption and deterioration of the Kuomintang forces and government were. Tuchman is a terrific writer. She has a liberal political view, but spares no one in bringing out facts and excoriating the leadership of China, Britain and the US, including FDR. This is well worth reading.Robert A. HallAuthor: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
This will not be for everyone (unfortunately), but if you're interested in learning about China before it became modern China, and gain some insight into their people and how their nation (so to speak) developed since the dynasties, this is a great read, with some excellent photos and maps included. Plus it provides an unusual perspective on the lead up to WWII that you don't get from most accounts of the war in Europe and against Japan. I would recommend it to anyone who lacks a good knowledge of China. The view into Stillwell's life and perspectives on things are very interesting too. I enjoyed learning that he was an early trainer of Third Army in the United States, and how our military evolved into our modern military.
Gives a wonderful biography of Gen Stillwell. Explains his character and belief systems and why he did what he did, and why he stayed on so long on China, when he could have had more success in other theatres in WW2.This book should be required reading for diplomatic personnel who have to deal with countries who are not on the same page as the USA is. Sometimes you need to just "Get out, Now"
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