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WHERE CHIANG KAI-SHEK LOST CHINA TWENTIETH-CENTURY BATTLES Spencer C. Tucker, editor Balkan Breakthrough RICHARD C. HALL The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946 HAROLD TANNER Battle of Dogger Bank: The First Dreadnought Engagement, January 1915 TOBIAS R. PHILBIN The Battle for Western Europe, Fall 1944: An Operational Assessment JOHN A. ADAMS The Battle of An Loc JAMES H. WILLBANKS The Battle of Heligoland Bight ERIC W. OSBORNE The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action H. P. WILLMOTT The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I PAUL G. HALPERN Battle of Surigao Strait ANTHONY P. TULLY The Brusilov Offensive TIMOTHY C. DOWLING China’s Battle for Korea XIAOBING LI D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan HAROLD J. GOLDBERG The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition ROBIN NEILLANDS The Imjin and Kapyong Battles: Korea, 1951 PAUL MACKENZIE In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 VINCENT P. O’HARA Midway Inquest: Why the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway DALLAS WOODBURY ISOM Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands MICHAEL B. BARRETT Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania MICHAEL B. BARRETT The Second Battle of the Marne MICHAEL S. NEIBERG The Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia, 1915–1916 NIKOLAS GARDNER WHERE CHIANG KAI-SHEK LOST CHINA THE LIAO-SHEN CAMPAIGN, 1948 HAROLD M. TANNER This book is a publication of INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2015 by Harold M. Tanner All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tanner, Harold Miles. Where Chiang Kai-Shek lost China : the Liao-Shen campaign, 1948 / Harold M. Tanner. pages cm. — (Twentieth-century battles) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-01692-8 (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-0-25301699-7 (ebook) 1. China—History —Civil War, 1945-1949—Campaigns—China—Liaoning Sheng. 2. China—History—Civil War, 1945- 1949—Campaigns—China—Manchuria. 3. Liaoning Sheng (China)—History, Military—20th century. 4. Manchuria (China)—History, Military—20th century. I. Title. DS777.5425.L5T36 2015 951.04’2—dc23 2015016683 1 2 3 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 For WILLIAM Contents · Acknowledgments · A Note on Chinese Names · Introduction 1 China: Lost or Won? 2 The Struggle for Manchuria Begins: August 1945–July 1946 3 Nationalist Offensive, Communist Reaction: South Manchuria, July– November 1946 4 Breaking the Nationalist Offensive: The Three Expeditions/Four Defenses Campaign, December 1946–March 1947 5 The Summer Offensive and the Wedemeyer Mission: May–August 1947 6 Encircling the Cities: The Autumn and Winter Offensives, September 1947– March 1948 7 The Battle behind the Lines: Building the North Manchuria Base Area 8 Army of Learning: The Transition from Guerrilla to Conventional Warfighting Capability 9 Contention Within: Summer 1948 10 Preparing to Annihilate the Enemy: September 1948 11 Close the Door and Beat the Dog: The Battles of Tashan and Jinzhou, October 1948 12 Putting Changchun under Siege: March–June 1948 13 Death, Treason, and Surrender in the Garden City: June–October 1948 14 Avalanche of Defeat: October–November 1948 15 Assessing and Remembering · Notes · Bibliography · Index
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