The Chinese Civil War

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With updates from the author, specially commissioned maps, and 50 new images, this is a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. With China's Japanese occupiers now defeated, the long struggle between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists exploded into an intense, brutal and ruthlessly fought civil war. In this engaging and surprising book, Michael Lynch delves into the political background and complex ramifications of the Chinese Civil War. He assesses Mao and Chiang's millions-strong armies, their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China. By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the new People's Republic of China was ready to emerge as a major Cold War power. Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century and its significant repercussions, the issues around which remain unresolved today.