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020			_a9780618894253 (hbk.) : _c30.00 USD
100	1		_aMITTER Rana
245			_aForgotten ally : _bChina's world war II 1937-1945 / _cRana MItter.
260			_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, _c2013.
300			_axii, 450 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
500			_aOriginally published in UK as "China's war with Japan" by Allen Lane, 2013.
520			_a"For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. China was the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West. In this emotionally gripping book, made possible through access to newly unsealed Chinese archives, Rana Mitter unfurls the story of China's World War II as never before and rewrites the larger history of the war in the process. He focuses his narrative on three towering leaders -- Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and the lesser-known collaborator Wang Jingwei -- and extends the timeline of the war back to 1937, when Japanese and Chinese troops began to clash, fully two years before Hitler invaded Poland. Unparalleled in its research and scope, Forgotten Ally is a sweeping, character-driven history that will be essential reading not only for anyone with an interest in World War II, but also for those seeking to understand today's China, where, as Mitter reveals, the echoes of the war still reverberate"--
650			_aHISTORY _xMILITARY _xWORLD WAR II
650			_aHISTORY _xASIA _zCHINA
650			_aWORLD WAR, 1939-1945 _zCHINA
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