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Condition: Used: Good. former library 1970 hc no dj reprint withdrawn stamp in book/ on edge of pages clean text has age has book plate and card pocket 288 pages/// D-7.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1937 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings: catalogue number on spine, stamps on page edges, bookplate inside front cover. NO DUST JACKET. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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8°, gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen. xv, 288 S. Einband leicht berieben und fleckig, Vorsätze u. Papier gebräunt, sonst sauber und gut erhalten.Schwarzer Leinenband mit Rotprägung, kein Schutzumschlag. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 288pp; No DJ, black cloth boards with red titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage biography of Chiang Kai-Shek of China. Illustrated with photos. Includes Bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1], 284, [4] pages. Some pencil marks and comments to text noted. DH as wear, tears (some repaired with tape) and soiling. Includes 42 chapters, as well as a bibliography and 12 black and white illustrations. Also includes thumb-nail sketches of the principal Chinese and foreign characters in this book, arranged alphabetically. This book is the first really good biography of China's Chiang. Few public men in modern times have evoked such passionate polemics as Chiang Kai-shek. No man of his generation has been so bitterly reviled by his own people; and yet just now he is more nearly a national hero than any Chinese has been for generations. This biography tells for the first time the complete story of the world's most mysterious Strong Manumit marshals facts which foes in China know. It gives the background of the man who now holds the center of the Far Eastern stage, a background which explains the significance of the important events taking place in Asia today. To read it is to gain a clear insight into the great drama now unfolding arose the Pacifica drama that is bound to have momentous consequences for the United States. As the Manager of the Shanghai Bureau of the United Press Association, the author secured at first hand the material for this unbiased and absorbingly interesting book. The author, a noted foreign correspondent, apparently later worked in an information capacity with the U.S. Department of State. Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 - 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in Taiwan until his death. Born in Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, Chiang was a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and a lieutenant of Sun Yat-sen in the revolution to overthrow the Beiyang government and reunify China. With help from the Soviets and the Communist Party of China, Chiang organized the military for Sun's Canton Nationalist Government and headed the Whampoa Military Academy. Commander in chief of the National Revolutionary Army (from which he came to be known as Generalissimo), he led the Northern Expedition from 1926 to 1928, before defeating a coalition of warlords and nominally reunifying China under a new Nationalist government. Midway through the Northern Expedition, the KMT-CPC alliance broke down and Chiang purged the communists inside the party, triggering a civil war with the CPC, which he eventually lost in 1949. As leader of the Republic of China in the Nanjing decade, Chiang sought to strike a difficult balance between modernizing China while also devoting resources to defending the nation against the CPC, warlords, and the impending Japanese threat. Trying to avoid a war with Japan while hostilities with the CPC continued, he was kidnapped in the Xi'an Incident and obliged to form an Anti-Japanese United Front with the CPC. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, he mobilized China for the Second Sino-Japanese War. For eight years he led the war of resistance against a vastly superior enemy, mostly from the wartime capital Chongqing. As the leader of a major Allied power, Chiang met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Cairo Conference to discuss terms for Japanese surrender. No sooner had the Second World War ended than the Civil War with the communists, by then led by Mao Zedong, resumed. Chiang's nationalists were mostly defeated in a few decisive battles in 1948. In 1949 Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan. Presiding over a period of social reforms and economic prosperity, Chiang won five elections to six-year terms as President of the Republic of China and was Director-General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975, three years into his fifth term as President and just one year before Mao's death. One of the longest-serving non-royal heads of state in the 20th century, Chiang was the longest-serving non-royal ruler of China having held the post for 46 years. He is regarded as a controversial figure. Supporters credit him with playing a major part in unifying the nation and leading the Chinese resistance against Japan, as well as with countering Soviet-communist encroachment.

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