The battle for China
Subtitle: essays on the military history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
By: edited by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780804762069
Description: " ... The battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars ... to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political, economic, and cultural realms ... [The authors of this volume cover military operations] ranging from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937 to the final campaigns of 1945. They present Western involvement in the war, but in Sino-Japanese contexts, and establish the war's place in World War II and world history in general"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Hans van de Ven and Edward Drea; title: An overview of major military campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven; title: The dragon's seed : origins of the war / Mark R. Peattie; title: The Nationalist Army on the eve of the war / Chang Jui-te; title: The Japanese Army on the eve of the war / Edward J. Drea; title: Chiang Kai-shek and the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing / Yang Tianshi; title: Japanese operations from July to December 1937 / Hattori Satoshi with Edward Drea; title: The defense of the Central Yangtze / Stephen MacKinnon; title: The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China, 1938-1941 / Tobe Ryoichi; title: The Japanese air campaigns in China, 1937-1945 / Hagiwara Mitsuru; title: The great bombing of Chongqing and the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edna Tow; title: China's quest for foreign military aid / Zhang Baijia; title: Nationalist and communist guerrilla warfare in North China / Yang Kuisong; title: Japanese combat morale : a case study of the Thirty-Seventh Division / Kawano Hitoshi; title: Japanese operations in Yunnan and North Burma / Asano Toyomi; title: Chinese operations in Yunnan and Central Burma / Zang Yunhu; title: The Ichigo offensive / Hara Takeshi; title: The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese military's response to Operation Ichigo / Wang Qisheng; title: Linkages between the China and Pacific wars / Tohmatsu Haruo; title: The Sino-Japanese War in history / Hans van de Ven; title: The Sino-Japanese War in the context of world history / Ronald Spector.