Title The battle for China : essays on the military history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 / edited by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 614 pages) : illustrations, maps Series ACLS Humanities E-book ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents Chronology of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Hans van de Ven and Edward Drea -- An overview of major military campaigns during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven -- The dragon's seed : origins of the war / Mark R. Peattie -- The Nationalist Army on the eve of the war / Chang Jui-te -- The Japanese Army on the eve of the war / Edward J. Drea -- Chiang Kai-shek and the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing / Yang Tianshi -- Japanese operations from July to December 1937 / Hattori Satoshi with Edward Drea -- The defense of the Central Yangtze / Stephen MacKinnon -- The Japanese Eleventh Army in Central China, 1938-1941 / Tobe Ryoichi -- The Japanese air campaigns in China, 1937-1945 / Hagiwara Mitsuru -- The great bombing of Chongqing and the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 / Edna Tow -- China's quest for foreign military aid / Zhang Baijia -- Nationalist and communist guerrilla warfare in North China / Yang Kuisong -- Japanese combat morale : a case study of the Thirty-Seventh Division / Kawano Hitoshi -- Japanese operations in Yunnan and North Burma / Asano Toyomi -- Chinese operations in Yunnan and Central Burma / Zang Yunhu -- The Ichigo offensive / Hara Takeshi -- The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese military's response to Operation Ichigo / Wang Qisheng -- Linkages between the China and Pacific wars / Tohmatsu Haruo -- The Sino-Japanese War in history / Hans van de Ven -- The Sino-Japanese War in the context of world history / Ronald Spector Summary " ... The battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars ... to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political, economic, and cultural realms ... [The authors of this volume cover military operations] ranging from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937 to the final campaigns of 1945. They present Western involvement in the war, but in Sino-Japanese contexts, and establish the war's place in World War II and world history in general"--Page 4 of cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-586) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL All rights reserved Print version record digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Campaigns -- China. Military campaigns Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg 1937-1945 Japanisch-chinesischer Krieg. Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg. Kinesisk-japanska kriget 1937-1945. Warfare and Defence. SUBJECT China -- History, Military -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92000658 Japan -- History, Military -- 1868-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069518 Subject China Japan Japan -- militärhistoria -- 1937-1945. Kina -- militärhistoria -- 1937-1945. Genre/Form Military history Military history. Form Electronic book Author Peattie, Mark R., 1930- Drea, Edward J., 1944- Van de Ven, Hans J. ISBN 9781503627338 1503627330

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