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“thomas a marks”

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  • Counterrevolution in China

    Wang Sheng and the Kuomintang

    by Thomas A. Marks ...
    This ground-breaking book spans 60 years of modern Chinese history from the much neglected non-communist perspective. Concentrating on Wang Sheng's career in relation to Chiang Kai-Shek's extraordinary son Chiang Ching-Kuo, it shows that the KMT were perfecting the methods that were to make Taiwan an East Asian Tiger' economy at the very point that they lost' the mainland. The book also provides a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Perspectives on the American Way of War

    The U.S. Experience in Irregular Conflict

    Edited by Thomas A. Marks, Kirklin J. Bateman ...
    Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era.This book asks why recent misfires have emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional, and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges and correct ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • People’s War

    Variants and Responses

    Edited by Thomas A Marks, Paul Rich ...
    Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, people’s war raises what has always been present in military history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for waging revolutionary warfare, the effort “to make a revolution.” Voluntarism is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam

    by Thomas A. Marks ...
    This is an analysis of revolutions based on the Maoist Mode. These insurgencies failed, having been successfully contained by their governments. How did the world's strongest power - America - fail where Third World governments have succeeded? ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    China's World War II, 1937–1945

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    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

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  • Mao

    The Unknown Story

    by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday ...
    The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

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  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    A Modern History

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    by Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Read more

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  • A Military History of China

    Edited by David A. Graff, Robin Higham ...
    Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China's ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

    The Unending Conflict in Korea

    by Sheila Miyoshi Jager ...
    A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers—again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD