Historian Barbara Tuchman follows the career of "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell whose involvement in China spanned the years of revolution, civil war and invasion by the Japanese. It is both a biography of Stilwell and a historical work on Sino-American relations.
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Historian Barbara Tuchman follows the career of "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell whose involvement in China spanned the years of revolution, civil war and invasion by the Japanese. It is both a biography of Stilwell and a historical work on Sino-American relations.
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Add this copy of Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American to cart. $2.98, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Futura.
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Political & Biographies-General Mass market paperback. Well used but unmarked. Useful study copy. A biography of General Joseph W. Stilwell and a study of American-Sino relations between the fall of the Manchu Empire after the 1911 Revolution, and the rise of Mao Tse-Tung in the 1940s. Stilwell loved China and served there during the '20s and '30s. He returned to command the China-Burma theater during the war with Japan. In 1944 Chiang Kai-shek asked President Roosevelt if Stilwell could be released from the US Army to become Commander-in Chief of China's armed forces UL-XXXXXX. 794pp illustrations, maps.
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Very good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. xv, [3], 621, [1] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Name and date in ink inside the front cover. Previous owner's embossed stamp of fep. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1912-1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. During World War II, Tuchman worked in the Office of War Information. Tuchman favored a literary approach to writing history, providing eloquent explanatory narratives rather than concentration upon discovery and publication of fresh archival sources. In 1978, Tuchman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She became the first female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979. She won a National Book Award in History. Derived from a Kirkus review: With accustomed adroitness Tuchman meshes details political and personal, major and minor, into a strong narrative of General Stilwell's career and thirty-five years of U.S. China policy. Stilwell was an egalitarian, commonsensical, high-humored officer; his hatred of pretense and incumbent loneliness are captured in particular through selections from his literate diaries. As staff officer to the American occupation force in Shanghai, but especially as intelligence officer from 1934 to 1940, Vinegar Joe is at his exuberant best. But Stilwell's orientation was toward tactical military situations, rather than the international political climate. She is descriptive of the 1942-1945 high points of Stilwell's career, as he tries to make the Chinese army capable of stopping the Japanese. Stilwell is afforded only meager logistical support from U.S. air and ground forces, denied enough political support to arm-twist Chiang, burdened with British shirking, and then ignominiously canned.
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Good. Nicks & tears to the edges of the jacket with wear along the spine & light scuffs & scratches. Price clipped. Light wear & bumps to board edges & corners. Tanned textblock edge. Stamp on ffep. Content is in very good, clean condition. 640 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
