Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946: & 10. The Far East: China
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946: The Far East
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: The Far East: China
Author: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948: The Far East: China
Author: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947: The Far East, China
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948: The Far East: China
Author: The Road to Confrontation
Author: William W. Stueck Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640090
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Concentrating on U.S. concerns for credibility abroad, Stueck uses recently declassified documents and many interviews to analyze the origins of the Sino-American confrontation in Korea in late 1950. He demonstrates how personalities (Secretary of State Marshall and General MacArthur) and bureaucracies (the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff) influenced policy development and how congressional penny-pinching reduced prospects for a prudent American course in Korea. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
Author: Daniel Kurtz-PhelanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An Economist Best Book of 2018 A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics—and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission—this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of “who lost China” roiled American politics. The China Mission traces this neglected turning point and forgotten interlude in a heroic career—a story of not just diplomatic wrangling and guerrilla warfare, but also intricate spycraft and charismatic personalities. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, it offers a richly detailed, gripping, close-up, and often surprising view of the central figures of the time—from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthur—as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.
FAR Horizons
Author: Foreign Area Research Coordination GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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