num_pages: 621
description: Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell &amp; the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in '72. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 &amp; commander of US forces &amp; allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in '42-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of WWII, when China's right-wing Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders &amp; Communist revolutionaries. Her story is an account of both American relations with China &amp; the experiences of one of the men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe," she found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of The National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story."
language: English
title: Stilwell and the American Experience in China
titlecomplete: Stilwell and the American Experience in China
characters: Joseph Stilwell
genres: Biography, China, Military History, History, World War II, American History, War, Asia, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 3429
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Biography
publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company (NYC)