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Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 (Twentieth-Century Battles) Hardcover – August 10, 2015

by Harold M. Tanner (Author)

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The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was "lost." Despite their significance, there have been few studies in English of the war's major campaigns. The Liao-Shen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of China’s northeast. After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria, Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area. China’s largest industrial base and a major source of coal, Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports (both still under Soviet control). When American mediation over control of Manchuria failed, full-scale civil war broke out. By spring of 1946, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern, economically developed part of Manchuria, pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua (Sungari) River. But over the next two years, the tide would turn. The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces. This is the story of that campaign and its outcome, which were to have such far-reaching consequences.

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"Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China is more than a fluidly written battle narrative or operational history. By tapping an impressive array of archival materials, published document collections, and memoirs, Harold Tanner has put the Liao-Shen Campaign in the larger context of the Chinese Civil War and significantly advanced our understanding of the military history of modern China."

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"A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China. A compelling narrative that grips one's attention from outset and doesn't let go until the last paragraph."

(Steven I. Levine, author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948 )

"Not just a military history of the campaign, but a consideration of its broad diplomatic significance and its place in historical memory. Will add significantly to our existing knowledge of the Chinese Civil War."

(Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong)

"The Liao-Shen campaign is very important and well-deserving of the book's title."

(Mark Wilkinson, Virginia Military Institute)

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Series: Twentieth-Century Battles
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press (August 10, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0253016924
ISBN-13: 978-0253016928
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 3 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #807 in Military Strategy History (Books)
- #702 in Chinese History (Books)

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Interesting and balanced

April 16, 2017

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Very nuanced discussion of a particular time in history, wonderfully organized narrative. I know very little about the Chinese civil war and found this a fascinating starting point

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Sarah C. M. Paine

this excellent book is an essential reading

September 21, 2016

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For anyone interested in the Chinese Civil War, this excellent book is an essential reading. For the first time in English, Harold Tanner explains the poorly understood succession of campaigns in Manchuria that brought the Communists to power. Rather than simply detailing military operations, he puts them in the greater context of the Chinese way of war, informed by Sunzi and practiced by Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, and others. Tanner then goes on to describe the strategic ramifications. He also puts military operations in the context of communist grand strategy, whose key elements included: base areas, institution building, economic development, land reform, indoctrination, guerrilla operations, and conventional warfare. Tanner bases his research on an extensive reading of Chinese-language primary and secondary sources. The book is a tour de force.

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Kevin Yang

Expecting an in-depth research work on the Russian support for ...

June 18, 2017

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Expecting an in-depth research work on the Russian support for the Chinese Communist forces. The Chinese civil war was basically a proxy war between America-supported Nationalist troops and Russia-supported Communist forces. Much is needed for such factors, as the most important factor, logistics and ammunition factors which played the crucial role in the outcomes of the war. It seems that America was intentionally ruining the Nationalist victory over communists after the first battle of Siping by "mediating", so that the communists could gain crucial breathing time and receive supplies from Soviet Union.

I personally anticipated a work on such proxy war factors and if possible, impacts from frameworks of Yalta Pact on later division of China along Taiwan Strait. Without analyses of such factors, we cannot gain a clear picture of how Chiang lost China.

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