num_pages: 640
description: Stilwell &amp; the American Experience in China, 1911-45 was written by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman &amp; published in '71 by Macmillan Publishers. It won the '72 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was republished in 2001 by Grove Press. It was also published under the title Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell &amp; the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Macmillan Publishers in 1970. Using the life of Joseph Stilwell, military attache to China in 1935-39 &amp; commander of U.S. forces &amp; allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in '42-44, this book explores the history of China from the Revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of WWII, when its right-wing Nationalist government faced attack from both Japanese invaders &amp; Communist insurgents.
language: English
title: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
titlecomplete: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
characters: Joseph Stilwell
genres: China, History, World War II, American History, Asia, War, Biography, Military History, 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: Phoenix Press