Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945

By Rana Mitter

Categories: History

Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (2013) is a history by Rana Mitter. Mitter tells the story of China's eight-year war against Japan, its role as an Allied power and how the conflict shaped modern China. He argues that the Chinese theater has been neglected in Western accounts of World War II and restores it to the center of the story.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is Rana Mitter's "The Forgotten Ally." If you want to understand how history has shaped China, the most important and strangely mostly forgotten story is about its role in World War II. As America's ally. Mitter, an Oxford don, brilliantly describes how much of modern China, its hard-lined communism, its anti-Japanese nationalism, was forged in the fires of that terrible conflict.”