Ninety-Day Wonder: Flight To Guerrilla War - Brossura

Horton, John Ryder

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0595094538 ISBN 13: 9780595094530

Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2000

Riassunto

In his four years of navy service during WWII, Ensign John Horton's military career ranged from communications in Manila to commander of a guerrilla training camp for Chinese soldiers. He also engaged with the Chinese in acts of sabotage, blowing up railroads and bridges in Japanese-occupied areas.Horton experienced a fascinating yet little-known aect of the war. With eyewitness accounts from both chinese and U.S. soldiers , he provides a rare and riveting glimpse of a china filled with bravery and foreboding, a country fighting a vicious enemy while teetering on the brink of civil war.

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L'autore:

John Ryder Horton was a naval officer in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked in 1941 and saw Indonesia fall in 1942. From 1943 to 1945, he served in china in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese. Postwar, Horton earned a Mater's degree in International Relations at the University of Chicago and served thereafter as an operations officer with the CIA.

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• Editore: iUniverse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0595094538
• ISBN 13: 9780595094530
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284