Duel for the Middle Kingdom
Subtitle: the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung for control of China
By: William Morwood.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Everest House
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780896960473
Subjects: Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.; Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.; China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 397-401.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reunion in Chungking; title: Son of the tiger gentry; title: The rebel of Shaoshan; title: The bungled bomb at Wuhan; title: Revolutionaries in limbo; title: Cross currents; title: The Tsungli Passes; title: Claimants to the mantle; title: The aborted crusade; title: Massacre at Shanghai; title: Thunder on the plains, fire in the mountains; title: The fat days of the Kuomintang; title: Years of the ram and the rooster; title: Flight of the hundred thousand; title: Eve of a great change; title: Collision in Sian; title: The devil is our leader; title: Typhoon from the north; title: One divides into two; title: Kill all, burn all; title: The will to fight; title: Squatting on Mount Omei; title: Shall we dare to win?; title: Circles within circles; title: Amid fire and thunder; title: Transformations utterly inconceivable