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The book received a mix of positive and negative reviews. Critics have commented on the scope the book brings to the Sino-American relations; Harold M Vinacke from Pacific Affairs remarks that Tuchman's coverage on Stilwell's experience in China is the broadest, giving the reader a very "perceptive summary" of recent Chinese History. However ...
Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, Macmillan 1970. Grove Press 2001. British edition: Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911–45, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. ISBN 978-1-84212-281-5. Sympathetic full scale biography.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (/ ˈ t ʌ k m ən /; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I , and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a ...
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45. (1972) (The British edition is titled Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911–45,) excerpt and text search; Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II. (2003) Yu, Maochun.
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Stilwell, however bitterly resisted [being under Giffard's command]. To watch Stilwell, when hard pressed, shift his opposition from one of the several strong-points he held by virtue of his numerous Allied, American and Chinese offices, to another was a lesson in mobile offensive-defence. —
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Barbara W. Tuchman's three-part series on General Joseph Stilwell in 1970, beginning with "A Yankee Among The War Lords", [25] that was later published as Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1972. [26]