…The major effort was intended to be by American-trained Chinese troops of Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) under General Joseph Stilwell, to cover the construction of the Ledo Road. Orde Wingate had controversially gained approval for a greatly expanded Chindit force, which was given the ...
…sent north towards Mawlu and Hopin where they probed Japanese defences.[8] They were later sent north to another stronghold dubbed "Blackpool" where they were tasked with supporting Chinese forces around Mogaung and Myitkyina under US General Joseph Stilwell, who re-roled them as conventiona...
Battle diaries are essential for understanding what generals are thinking as they work their way through the fog of battle. Nicholas Sarantakes juxtaposes the diaries of two very different generals who both fought at Okinawa: Lt. Gen. Buckner, a bythenumbers man who favored the use of artillery and ...
Hardcover
224
Texas A&M University Press
1585442941
9781585442942
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Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American. General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply, spoke its language, and knew its peo...
Barbara W. Tuchman
Kindle Edition
768
Random House
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His American men worshipped him. The Chinese armies he trained and led would have gone through hell for him. But the politicians, both in Chunk-King and Washington, hated his guts. And after two and a half years of bitter struggle in the China-Burma-India theater during the dog days of World War II,...
Joseph W. Stilwell
Paperback
357
Da Capo Press
030680428X
9780306804281
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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 h...
Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback
624
Grove Press
0802138527
9780802138521
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Bitterly disappointed that the British had failed to take offensive action in northern Burma to help open a land route from India to China, American general Joseph Vinegar Joe Stilwell decided it was time to take matters into his own land.
Nathan Prefer
Hardcover
352
Presidio Press
089141715X
9780891417156
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