TY - BOOK AU - Mitter Rana TI - China's war with Japan, 1937-1945: the struggle for survival SN - 9781846140105 U1 - 940.5351 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Allen Lane KW - China KW - History KW - Republic, 1912 KW - 1949 KW - World War, 1939 KW - 1945 KW - China KW - Japan N1 - In this book, the author writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Author puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan's failure to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia. The book presents a moving account of the Chinese people's incredible suffering ER -