The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946

Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 266pp. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a cease-fire brokered by the American general, George Marshall. Within three years, Mao Zedong's troops had captured Manchuria and would soon drive Chiang Kai-shek's forces off the mainland. Did Marshall, as Chiang later claimed, save the Communists and determine China's fate? Putting the battle into the context of the military and political struggles fought, Harold M. Tanner casts light on all sides of this historic confrontation and shows how the outcome has been, and continues to be, interpreted to suit the needs of competing visions of China's past and future.(Publisher).