Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45 de Barbara W. Tuchman - 1994

The Easton Press, 1994. Leatherbound. Very Good. VERY GOOD. Unread. Has blank bookplate on inside back cover. Usual Easton Press quality features: High quality genuine leather; 22kt gold inlaid design on both back and front covers, spine with six raised bands and accented in 22kt gold -- gilt page edges; archival acid-neutral paper; Smyth-sewn; and sewn in satin ribbon; the book mark is tucked into pages in the original new position. xv, 621 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: PROLOGUE: The Crisis -- PART ONE: 1.) Foundations of an Officer -- 2.) Visitor to Revolution: China, 1911 -- 3.) The Great War: St. Mihiel and Shantung -- 4.) Assignment to Peking: Years of the Warlords, 1920-23 -- 5.) The *Can Do* Regiment and the Rise of Chiang Kai-Shek, 1926-29 -- 6.) *Vinegar Joe,* 1929-35 -- 7.) Military Attache: China's Last Chance, 1935-37 -- 8.) Military Attache: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1949 ----- PART TWO: 9.) The Rush to Prepare, 1939-41 -- 10.) *I'll Go Where I'm Sent,* December 1941-February 1942 -- 11.) A Hell of a Beating,* March-May 1942 -- 12.) The Client, June-October 1942 -- 13.) *Peanut and I on a Raft,* August 1942-January 1943 -- 14.) The President's Policy, January-May 1943 -- 15.) Stilwell Must Go, June-October 1943 -- 16.) China's Hour at Cairo, November-December 1943 -- 17.) The Road Back, December 1943-July 1944 -- 18.) *The Future of All Asia is at Stake,* June-September 1944 -- 19.) The Limits of *Can Do,* September-November 1944 -- 20.) *We Ought to Get Out - Now,* 1945-46 -- APPENDIX: Road-Building, 1921: Haphazard conversations by Major Joseph W. Stilwell