Papers : on Barbara Tuchman's Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1942-1971.

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Papers : on Barbara Tuchman's Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1942-1971.

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The collection contains General Boatner's memorandum, entitled Barbara Tuchman and the American Experience in China, a Statement Thereon for the Record, which corrects several errors in Mrs. Tuchman's book. He first reviews his own role in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and then discusses 10 specific incidents in the book, particularly the siege of Myitkyin-a in Burma, 1944. With the memorandum are 10 contemporary documents, 1942-1949, and 1960, illustrating points Boatner wished to emphasize, together with brief 1971 explanations of each.

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Historian and writer Tuchman (1912- ) received an A.B. from Radcliffe College (1933), and worked as a journalist and editor. She is the author of many prize-winning works, including The Guns of August (1962) and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971). From the description of Letter, 1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007438 New York-born American journalist and historian; Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Guns of August, 1962. Fro...

Boatner, Haydon L. (Haydon Lemaire), 1900-1977

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