Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Resumen del libro

Barbara Tuchman's epic, Pulitzer-Prize winning biography of Joseph Stilwell, American commander and witness to the great upheavals of Chinese history in first half of the 20th century, now for the first time in a Random House trade paperback edition, with a fresh new package.

With the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, Barbara Tuchman explores the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of American on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed Vinegar Joe, Tuchman 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.

Biografía del autor

Barbara W. Tuchman (Nueva York, 1912-1989), periodista, escritora e historiadora, se licenció en el Radcliffe College. Empezó a destacar como historiadora con El telegrama Zimmermann (1959) y alcanzó la fama internacional con Los cañones de agosto (1962), que obtuvo un enorme éxito de ventas y ganó el Premio Pulitzer. Sus dos obras siguientes, La torre del orgullo (1966) y Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), alcanzaron una repercusión excepcional. Con este último además, volvió a ganar el Pulitzer. Entre sus trabajos ás reconocidos está también Un espejo lejano (1978).