Diary of a Congressman

Whitehurst, G. William

Donning Company/publishers

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Walsworth Pub. Co

<p>Diary of a Congressman is a book by G. William Whitehurst.</p>

Diary of a congressman

Donning

<p>In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated. The Japanese won significant battles and captured the capital, Nanking, after a horrific massacre of its citizens. Chiang Kai-shek, China's acknowledged leader, would not surrender--each side believed it could win a war of attrition. The U.S. sided with China, primarily because of President Roosevelt's personal bias in their favor. At first proposing an ineffectual "quarantine" approach to Japan, he eventually took active steps to block Japanese aggression. Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews with key players, from soldiers to diplomats, this history traces America's unexpected and unpopular involvement in an Asian conflict, and the growing recognition of Japan's threat to world peace and the inevitability of war.</p>

The China Incident: Igniting the Second Sino-Japanese War

History

Military

McFarland

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