作者：DanielKurtz-Phelan
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
副标题：GeorgeC.Marshall'sUnfinishedWar,1945-1947
出版年：2018-4-10
页数：416
定价：USD28.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780393240955
内容简介
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A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics―and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out.
As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission―this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III.
In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of “who lost China” roiled American politics.
The China Mission traces this neglected turning point and forgotten interlude in a heroic career―a story of not just diplomatic wrangling and guerrilla warfare, but also intricate spycraft and charismatic personalities. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, it offers a richly detailed, gripping, close-up, and often surprising view of the central figures of the time―from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthur―as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.
作者简介
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Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is the executive editor of Foreign Affairs. He previously served in the US State Department as a member of the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff. His reportage and analysis have appeared in publications including the New York Times and The New Yorker.
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中国离苏联太近，离美国太远
马歇尔是近代史上我最敬重的伟人，不仅能力超强，而且人品出众。这本书非常详细地记述了他参与国共谈判的经历，我认为作者还比较公正，没有刻意偏袒任何一方，算是对我们学过的历史的补充。
這書可以翻譯引進吧？
正如作者所言，Marshall's China mission is "a story not of possibility and ambition, but of limit and constraint; not of a victory achieved at any cost, but of a kind of failure ultimately accepted as the bes…
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