Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GE.USZ FS.E Mitt / College 2d - Geschichte / Sammlung Duffek	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 29.08.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

VERLAGSTEXT: / / In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today. With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict. He writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Mitter puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan's failure to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia. / / AUS DEM INHALT: / / List of Illustrations | xi / List of Maps | xiv / Acknowledgements | xv / Dramatis Personae | xvii / Pronunciation Guide | xix / List of Abbreviations | xx / / Prologue: City on Fire | 1 / / PART ONE - The Path to War / 1. As Close as Lips and Teeth: China¿s Fall, Japan¿s Rise | 17 / 2. A New Revolution | 34 / 3. The Path to Confrontation | 49 / / PART TWO - Disaster / 4. Thirty-Seven Days in Summer: The Outbreak of War | 73 / 5. The Battle for Shanghai | 92 / 6. Refugees and Resistance | 103 / 7. Massacre at Nanjing | 119 / 8. The Battle of Taierzhuang | 141 / 9. The Deadly River | 155 / / PART THREE - Resisting Alone / 10. `A sort of wartime normal¿ | 171 / 11. Flight into the Unknown | 196 / 12. The Road to Pearl Harbor | 210 / / PART FOUR - The Poisoned Alliance / 13. Destination Burma | 239 / 14. Hunger in Henan | 164 / 15. States of Terror | 282 / 16. Conference at Cairo | 298 / 17. One War, Two Fronts | 318 / 18. Showdown with Stilwell | 338 / 19. Unexpected Victory | 351 / / Epilogue: The Enduring War | 372 / / Further Reading | 389 / Notes | 397 / Index | 351 /