A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 Peraino Kevin
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 Peraino Kevin New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book AwardA gripping narrative of the Truman…
Specifikacia A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 Peraino Kevin
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 Peraino Kevin
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book AwardA gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day.In the opening months of 1949, U.S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe--"perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered," as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. President Harry S.
As Truman and his aides--including his shrewd, ruthless secretary of Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong's Communist armies fanned out across mainland China, annihilating the rival troops of America's one-time ally Chiang Kai-shek and taking control of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities.