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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
My daughter is a reader. This Christmas she gave me one of the nicest gifts I have ever received. She gave me Barbara Tuchman's excellent, Pulitzer Prize winning, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. I had already read Tuchman's Guns of August, also a Pulitzer winner. I think my daughter may have had an ulterior motive. She is studying Chinese in college and she will be leaving for a summer of language study in China in a few weeks. Now that I am done, she gets to read it. I have to admit that I didn't know anything about General Vinegar Joe Stillwell. After reading Stillwell, I realized that I didn't know anything about China either. Continue reading Dave's review of Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 |
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