被遗忘的盟友：中国的第二次世界大战，1937-1945年

被遗忘的盟友：中国的第二次世界大战，1937-1945年

拉纳-米特

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中国八年抗日战争的史诗般的不为人知的故事

几十年来，二战历史的一个重要部分几乎没有被书写。战争在中国开始，比希特勒入侵波兰早两年，中国最终成为第四个大盟国，成为美国、苏联和英国的伙伴。然而，它的入侵、抵抗、屠杀和政治阴谋的戏剧在西方仍然鲜为人知。

拉纳-米特将他扣人心弦的叙述集中在三位杰出的领导人身上。蒋介石是中国国民党政府的领导人，他在政治上很有天赋，但却有着悲剧性的缺陷；毛泽东是共产党人火热的意识形态中坚力量，在这里可以看到他划时代的职业生涯的开始；还有鲜为人知的汪精卫，他与日本人合作，在被占领的中国建立了一个傀儡国家。他利用过去十年才解封的中国档案，为蒋介石的美国参谋长、令人难忘的 "醋坛子 "史迪威等人物带来了生动的新形象，以及诸如南京大屠杀和中国战时首都重庆被炸等恐怖事件。在整个过程中，《被遗忘的盟友》展示了中国人民如何在更广泛的战争努力中发挥了重要作用，付出了巨大的政治和个人牺牲。

被遗忘的盟友》改写了整个二战的历史。然而，它也为当代中国提供了令人惊讶的洞察力。在塑造中国的世界观方面，20世纪的任何事件都是如此关键，如果没有这本权威著作，任何人都无法理解中国，以及它与美国今天的关系。

 Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945

Rana Mitter

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The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan

For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.

Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.

Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.