Essentials The Chinese Civil War Paperback

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In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview ofthe Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history.Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the mostimportant conflicts in modern history reached its climax. In this illustrated history,bestselling historian Dr Michael Lynch examines how the long struggle between ChiangKaishek’sNationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists exploded into an intense,brutal and ruthlessly fought civil war. Delving into the political background and complexramifications of the conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang’s millionsstrongarmies,their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China.By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the newPeople’s Republic of China was ready to emerge as a major Cold War power.Updated and revised for the new edition, with full-colour maps and new imagesthroughout, this is a concise study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th centuryand its significant repercussions, the issues around which remain unresolved today.Sales and Marketing HighlightsThis new edition in the relaunched Essential Histories series has a revisedintroduction and updates from the author, all new images and a reinvigorateddesign.The Chinese Civil War is one of the key conflicts of the 20th century, but thereare few English-language titles on the subject.Dr Michael Lynch is an Honorary Fellow in the School History, Politics &International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is a bestsellingauthor on Hodder’s Access To History series as well as an editor on theseries as a whole.Written by Dr Michael Lynch, specialist in modern European and Asian history,this fully illustrated history of the Chinese Civil War provides an importantreference resource for the academic or student reader as well as those with ageneral interest in modern Chinese conflicts.