Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An Economist Best Book of 2018
New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick

Gripping [and] splendid.... An enormous contribution to our understanding of Marshall.Washington Post

At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final missionthis time not to win a war, but to stop one. In China, conflict between Communists and Nationalists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. Marshall's charge was to cross the Pacific, broker a peace, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. At first, the results seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choiceone that would alter the course of the Cold War, define the US-China relationship, and spark one of the darkest-ever turns in American political life.

The China Mission offers a gripping, close-up view of the central figures of the timefrom Marshall, Mao, and Chiang Kai-shek to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthuras they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393243086
• Artikelnr.: 59593237

Autorenporträt

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is the executive editor of Foreign Affairs. He previously served in the US State Department as a member of the secretary of state's Policy Planning Staff. His reportage and analysis have appeared in publications including the New York Times and The New Yorker.