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Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the China he lost / Jonathan Fenby.
- Title
- Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-shek and the China he lost / Jonathan Fenby.
- Author
- Fenby, Jonathan.
- Publication
- London : Free Press, 2003.
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| Text | Request in advance | DS777.488.C5 F463 2003g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxix, 562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "For more than two decades, Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo of China, stood at the centre of a uniquely turbulent period in the modern history of the world's most heavily populated nation. The son of a village salt-seller, he rose to personify his vast country in the period between the fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 and the Communist victory in 1949. Grabbing the mantle of the Nationlist revolution and gaining control of the Kuomintang party, he led its army on the greatest campaign on earth between the two world wars in an attempt to defeat powerful warlords and propel the country towards unification, only to be confronted by the twin challenges of the Communists and the invading Japanese - challenges which ultimately proved too great for even this most ambitious of men." "Generalissimo explores Chiang's military and political career as well as revealing his equally complex private life. And while Chiang is the central figure, the book also represents a riveting history of pre-Communist China, a period of almost four decades during which tens of millions died in civil wars, floods, famines, and the fourteen-year conflict with Japan."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-549) and index.
- ISBN
- 0743231449
- OCLC
- ocm52829166
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries