1946 Hardcover Book, Thunder Out of China, History, China, WWll, Military History, Political History, First Edition

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1946 Hardcover Book, Thunder Out of China, History, China, WWll, Military History, Political History, First Edition

A hardcover book entitled Thunder Out of China by Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby. This is a 1946 first edition. The cover boards are green cloth with the title on the spine in gold. It is missing its dust cover.

From the first outbreak of hostilities in northern China in 1937 to the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945, this book re-creates the decade of upheaval when China was caught in the grip of revolution and war and torn from its feudal past. The authors, Time-Life correspondents during the war years, report firsthand on the rise and fall of the Kuomintang nationalist government and its leader, Chiang Kaishek, who ironically misunderstood his own people as much as the Japanese. At the same time, we see how the Communists won popular support both with more extensive social reforms and with their unrelenting war against Japan. White and Jacoby also shed new light on the actions of "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (the only American who assessed the Chinese situation accurately) and the diplomacy of Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, also providing a classic account of the Chinese peasant and his revolution which has since proved to be the recurrent pattern of events in the developing Third World.


8½ x 5¾ inches
331 pages
Maps on inside front and back covers.
Published by William Sloane Associates, Inc -- 1946

This book is in very good condition. The book has no rips or tears. The binding is completely tight and the pages are slightly yellowed with age. There is some light staining and rubbing to the front cover and it has no dust cover. There is the original owner's name on the front flyleaf but there are no other marks in the book.

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