Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe,the Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek - David Rooney, Audiobook
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This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell presents an admirably lucid account of his career and the complex story of the Burma campaign. Stilwell spent most of World War II as Chiang Kai-Shek’s chief of staff in China. He was often at odds with the British generals Wavell, Slim and Wingate, men with whom he was to co-operate in Burma. These arguments earned him the nickname of ‘Vinegar’ Joe. Stilwell and George Marshall had planned to have ninety Chinese divisions armed by the USA. Had they succeeded, in 1945 they would have been strong enough to defeat the Communists and would have changed the course of Chinese, if not world, history. Although Chiang had Stilwell dismissed, he recognized his contribution to the Burma Road campaign by renaming part of it the Stilwell Road. This sympathetic but critical biography analyses the passions of an American patriot, infuriated by Chiang’s dishonesty and chicanery, and looks at the possible outcome had Stilwell’s views prevailed. After World War II service in the Far East and Ghana, David Rooney read history at Oxford and subsequently took a research degree in Commonwealth History. His career in education included four years as Senior Lecturer at RMA Sandhurst. His writings include Burma Victory, considered by Brigadier Michael Calvert the best book yet on the Burma Campaign, Wingate and the Chindits, Mad Mike, and his recent highly acclaimed Guerrilla. Robert Lyman is the author of the best-selling Slim, Master of War.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
June 26th, 2022
One of history’s great missed opportunities, with untold suffering & unprecedented genocide as the cost. Barbara Tuchman wrote brilliantly on the same area.
June 26th, 2022
Thank you kindly
June 29th, 2022
@caesar963
You don’t think Chiang Kai-Shek would have been just as bad?
June 29th, 2022
That puts us in the area of speculation, Byt, with all of its associated imponderables. What we can maintain with absolute certainty is the truly appalling nature of the ideological regime which emerged victorious; with the horrifying consequences playing out in the current genocide & general system of barbaric repression (evidenced in Hong Kong & everywhere else under that grinding heel).
In terms of cold numbers, the Chinese Communist regime was the most genocidal of what was the bloodiest century in human history, with well in excess of 70 million murders - and still counting. (With the standard proviso that these numbers could, in actual fact, be vastly larger.) The absence of fundamental human rights renders any such ideological state a slave state. Without recourse to substantive rights, the individual is unprotected from the caprice of the despotic state.
Undoubtedly, this “new” ideological regime did reresent a radical break in Chinese history.
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