RANA MITTER is a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including A Bitter Revolution. He is a regular contributor to British television and radio. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere.
The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became 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.
Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.
Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.
这本书正如作者所说,是写给欧美的读者的,故而专业人士读此书的收获不一定很大,学术性不是很强,但是一般的读者可以从中看到抗日战争的全貌,作者的文笔相当好,读起来犹如故事一般引人入胜。需要批评的是此书的制作粗糙,用纸不好,有缺角,且掉纸沫,印刷用墨稍浅,尤其是...
评分明年就是中国抗日战争胜利七十周年了!这本书是向中国民众提前送上的一份厚礼,值得中国读者笑纳。 应该说现在关于中国抗日战争的书籍已经出了不少了,当然中国人自己出的书籍远远多于外国人写的相关书籍。随着离抗日战争的时间越长,与现实的政治利益关系越来越少...
评分作为一本综述类著作,本书其实对于各种细节的照顾还是很到位的。篇幅所限,很多方面没有展开。 p40 蒋介石会见了托洛茨基等布尔什维克的显要人物,但对苏共印象不佳。 p50 日本的民族主义汲取了禅宗和日莲宗的教义以及德国“鲜血与祖国”的思想,其非理性和浪漫主义与“泛亚主...
评分黯淡了刀光剑影又渐渐清晰,远去了鼓角铮鸣又轰然作响……基于最新解禁档案,《中国,被遗忘的盟友》(下文简称《盟友》)披露了发生于1937~1945年中国抗日战争史。无数悲天恸地的事件,万千大小人物的命运变迁,共同构成了这部扣人心弦的战争史诗。拉纳·米特,西方新...
看的第二本英文书,额,本来自己对历史就不太了解,看了之后发现太多的人太多的事被遗忘了。蒋还是一个牛逼人物啊
评分看的第二本英文书,额,本来自己对历史就不太了解,看了之后发现太多的人太多的事被遗忘了。蒋还是一个牛逼人物啊
评分A history that has virtually gone unwritten until now.
评分peanut 这个叫法令人印象深刻
评分HI537 对外国人来说是让他们了解中国在二战中的付出的良作 对中国读者而言大体是一个大概的介绍 但里面比较在意的有两个点 其一是美国作为猪队友坑蒋介石 或者说是牺牲了中国的利益为自己更在意的全局/欧洲/自己 其二是有一些小线索反复出现如战地记者 有微观史学之感
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