The Fall of Shanghai The Communist Takeover of 1949
Language: English
Published by Mc Millan, 1979
- Hardcover
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Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United KingdomRhos Point Books
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Hardback. Dust Jacket, Both in Very Good condition.Black cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket, not price clipped. 251 pages. Illustrated. End papers show the famous waterfront of Shanghai. Even in the summer of 1948, when the Communists were surging south towards the Yangtze, the great city of Shanghai was still flaunting its unconcern with the future - 'as though its six million inhabitants had closed a collective eye to the civil war around it and were determined that, until the enemy reached the gates, the city would remain in all its glory, a last oasis of yesterday in the China of tomorrow. It was a city ripe for a Communist takeover. Noel Barber tells the story of how the Red Army's advance gathered momentum as one by one the corrupt Nationalist leaders surrendered their forces, handing over their American equipment often without a fight, of the Red Army's crossing of the Yangtze, and how the British frigate Amethyst was caught in it, of the almost bloodless taking of Shanghai and how the city changed its face overnight, Above all he shows how it affected the lives of the people whose home this was and who in many cases stayed on to the bitter end - sometimes with tragic results.…
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- Title
- The Fall of Shanghai The Communist Takeover of 1949
- Author
- Barber, Noel
- Publisher
- Mc Millan
- Publication year
- 1979
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0333247817
- ISBN 13
- 9780333247815
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Rhos Point Books
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