TY - BOOK AU - Peattie,Mark R. AU - Drea,Edward J. AU - Van de Ven,Hans J. TI - The battle for China: essays on the military history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 PY - 2011///] CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Campaigns KW - China KW - History, Military KW - 1912-1949 KW - Japan KW - 1868-1945 KW - Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-586) and index; 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 Ichigō offensive / Hara Takeshi -- The Battle of Hunan and the Chinese military's response to Operation Ichigō / 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 N2 - " ... 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40048 ER -