Dragon by the tail;: American, British, Japanese, and Russian encounters with China and one another

by John Paton Davies Jr.

1st edition (1972), from a private family collection, seems seldom read, with minor shelving edge rubbing and wear to dust jacket, front flap CLIPPED, in tight spine, secured binding, square corners, no marking.

Genres: History, China

448 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1972

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want of view of WWII in China at the 10,000 foot level this is the book for you. John Davies worked directly with all the major allied leaders in China and will give you the nitty-gritty on FDR, General Joe Stilwell, Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, and Mao Zedong. Davies was born in Sichuan province under the Manchu Emperor and saw first hand the disintegration of China in the Warlord Period of the 1920s and 1930s and the formal reunification of mainland China under the Communist Party in 1949. Bonus points for being assigned to the US embassy at Mukden in the now nonexistent state of Manchukuo.

[Larry Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

An outstanding history of China and the United States involvement from the 1930s through World War II by someone who was actually there and deeply a part of and witness to the story, I highly recommend it.