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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

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Author
  
Barbara W. Tuchman

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Originally published
  
1971

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Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Nominations
  
National Book Award for Biography

Similar
  
Works by Barbara W Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners, World War II books

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 is a work of history written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published in 1971 by Macmillan Publishers. It won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was republished in 2001 by Grove Press It was also published under the title Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Macmillan Publishers in 1970.

Using the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935 to 1939 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942 to 1944, this book explores the history of China from the Revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from both Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents.

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 Wikipedia