Includes original slipcase and jacket. Ribbon marker bound in, photograph mounted on slipcase. Tiny spot on jacket spine, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1971 Hard Cover. xxix, 623 pp. Hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Includes new afterword by Tuchman, new introduction by John K. Fairbank, and illustrations selected specially for this edition by Joan Paterson Kerr. Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed Vinegar Joe, Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of The National Review, one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story. CONTENTS: Foreword; Prologue: The Crisis; Foundations of an Officer; Visitor to Revolution: China, 1911; The Great War: St. Mihiel and Shantung; Assignment to Peking: Years of the Warlords, 1920-23; The Can Do Regiment and the Rise of Chiang Kai-Shek, 1926-29; Vinegar Joe, 1929-35; Military Attache: China's Last Chance, 1935-37; Military Attache: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-39; The Rush to Prepare: 1939-1941; I'll Go Where I'm Sent: December 1941-February 1942; A Hell of a Beating: March-May 1942; The Client: June-October 1942; Peanut and I on a Raft: August 1942- January 1943; The President's Policy: January-May 1943; Stilwell Must Go: June-October 1943; China's Hour at Cairo: November-December 1943; The Road Back: December 1943-July 1944; The Future of All Asia Is at Stake: June-September 1944; The Limits of Can Do: September-November 1944; We Ought to Get Out -- Now: 1945-46; Appendix: Road-Building, 1921: Haphazard Conversations by Major Joseph W. Stilwell; Bibliography and Other Sources; Notes; Index.

CHINA  FOREIGN  RELATIONS  UNITED  STATES  CHINESE  STILWELL  AMERICAN  EXPERIENCE  1911  1945  BARBARA  WERTHEIM  TUCHMAN  WORLD  WAR  I  WWI  ONE  1  FIRST  GREAT  ASIA  ASIAN  ASIATIC  POLICY  HISTORY  HISTORICAL  HISTORIC  BIOGRAPHICAL  BIOGRAPHY  VINEGAR  JOE  MANCHU  EMPIRE  MAO  TSE  TUNG  ZEDONG  REVOLUTION  REVOLUTIONARY  REVOLT  PEKING  TIENTSIN  1920S  1930S  TWENTIES  THIRTIES  THEATER  COMMANDER  BURMA  INDIA  BURMESE  INDIAN  WWII  II  TWO  2  SECOND  AXIS  ALLIES  OPEN  DOOR  JOHN  HAY  GENERAL  MARSHALL  CHIANG  KAI  SHEK  GENERALISSIMO  SOUTHEAST  SOUTH  EAST  SE  SOLDIERS  AMBASSADORS  MISSIONARIES  WARLORDS  WARFARE  COMMUNISTS  COMMUNISM  RED  ARMY  SPIRITUAL  HEIR  EMPRESS  DOWAGER  PATTON  MILITARY  LEADER  LETTERS  JOURNALS  DIARIES  DIARY  WEST  POINT  UNIVERSITY  GRADUATING  CLASS