Thunder Out of China

White, Theodore H., Jacoby, Annalee

What did America see, and fail to see, in wartime China, as it first met the cultures of Asia?

At a glance

You will see why confusion, not clarity, is the honest record of the China war, as two young correspondents reported it
You will weigh the authors' warning that America cannot defend democracy by backing regimes of oppression, feudalism and corruption
You will understand how the Communists and the Central Government struggled for physical possession of China once Japan was beaten