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The epic, untold story of China's disastrous eight-year battle of amount of resistance against Japan. For decades, a major piece of World Conflict II history has gone almost unwritten. The battle started out in China two full years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and THE UK. Yet its dilemma of invasion, amount of resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the Western. Rana Mitter concentrates his gripping narrative on three towering market leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed mind of China's Nationalist administration; Mao Zedong, the Communists' fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the start of his epochal job; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to create a puppet talk about in occupied China. Pulling on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed before a decade, he brings to vivid new life such people as Chiang's American main of staff, the unforgettable "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and such horrific incidents as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China's wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows the way the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider battle work, at great political and personal sacrifice. Forgotten Ally rewrites the whole history of World Conflict II, yet it offers unusual insights into contemporary China. No 20th-century event was as crucial in shaping China's worldview, and no-one can understand China, and its own marriage with America today, without this definitive work.
