@article{706090,
      recid = {706090},
      author = {Mitter, Rana,},
      title = {Forgotten ally China's World War II, 1937-1945 /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,},
      address = {Boston :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 450 p., [16] pages of plates) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"For decades, a major piece of World War II history has  gone virtually unwritten. China was the fourth great ally,  partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great  Britain, yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter,  and political intrigue remains little known in the West. In  this emotionally gripping book, made possible through  access to newly unsealed Chinese archives, Rana Mitter  unfurls the story of China's World War II as never before  and rewrites the larger history of the war in the process.  He focuses his narrative on three towering leaders --  Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and the lesser-known  collaborator Wang Jingwei -- and extends the timeline of  the war back to 1937, when Japanese and Chinese troops  began to clash, fully two years before Hitler invaded  Poland. Unparalleled in its research and scope, Forgotten  Ally is a sweeping, character-driven history that will be  essential reading not only for anyone with an interest in  World War II, but also for those seeking to understand  today's China, where, as Mitter reveals, the echoes of the  war still reverberate"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/706090},
}