Todd Mundt

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Chiang would visit India and speak to the leaders of their independence struggle as an ally and friend, a fellow non-European. Then he would join the Allies in their first joint campaign, not in China, but in the jungles of neighboring Burma. Yet the price he would pay for China’s entry, at long last, into the alliance, would be a heavy one. Chiang desperately needed his new partners, but accepting this alliance would unleash forces that would threaten the very basis of his rule. The complexities of that bargain would be most visible in the four-year duel between Chiang and that American ...more
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
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