The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947

By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan recounts General George C. Marshall's 1945-1947 mission to China to broker peace between the Nationalists and Communists, and its failure as civil war resumed.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is "The China Mission" by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan. We think foreign policy has become partisan today, but this superb book reminds us that the debate over who lost China, as it went Communist in 1949, was ferocious.”