Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941

by Franco David Macri

Book Overview

Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent-a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations. In the first book to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618775
• ISBN13: 9780700618774
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"