90 Results for : shek
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Burma Victory, 1944-1945
Covers operations by the British multinational 14th Army and also the American-Sino troops of General Stilwell and Chiang Kai-Shek.- Shop: buecher
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min
A gripping narrative of the Truman administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949 - an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949, US President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe - "perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered", as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong's Communist armies fanned out across mainland China, annihilating the rival troops of America's onetime ally Chiang Kai-shek and taking control of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities. As Truman and his aides - including his shrewd, ruthless secretary of state, Dean Acheson - scrambled to formulate a response, they were forced to contend not only with Mao but also with unrelenting political enemies at home. Over the course of this tumultuous year, Mao would fashion a new revolutionary government in Beijing, laying the foundation for the creation of modern China, while Chiang Kai-shek would flee to the island sanctuary of Taiwan. These events transformed American foreign policy - leading ultimately to decades of friction with Communist China, a long-standing US commitment to Taiwan, and the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam. Drawing on Chinese and Russian sources as well as recently declassified CIA documents, Kevin Peraino tells the story of this remarkable year through the eyes of the key players, including Mao Zedong, President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, Minnesota congressman Walter Judd, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the influential first lady of the Republic of China. Today, the legacy of 1949 is more relevant than ever to the relationships between China, the United States, and the rest of the world as Beijing asserts its claims in the South China Sea and tensions endure between Taiwan and the mainland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005294/bk_rand_005294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
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BMX
Mit dem Buch "BMX" werden Sie zum erstklassigen Flatland-BMX-Fahrer: Autor Shek Hon hat dazu ein wunderbar einfaches und logisches Lernkonzept entwickelt.Schritt für Schritt, illustriert mit vielen Bildsequenzen, erläutert Autor und BMX-Experte Shek Hon die grundlegenden Tricks und Techniken des Flatland-Fahrens. Neulinge lernen so sicher und einfach die Basics, die sie für schwierige Tricks benötigen.Aber selbst routinierte Fahrer finden noch Anregungen, denn das Buch erklärt auch einige der anspruchsvollsten Tricks aus der Profi-Szene. Flatland-BMX ist nämlich viel mehr als "Bunny-hop" und "Wheelie": Es bietet unzählige Möglichkeiten, sich mit Bewegung auszudrücken - und doch braucht man dazu nicht mehr als ein Bike, die passende Schutzausrüstung und eine gut asphaltierte Fläche.Neben der Praxis geht der Autor, selbst ambitionierter BMXer und seit seinem achten Lebensjahr im Sattel, "back to the basics". Ererläutert die Geschichte seines Sports, gibt Tipps zum Bike-Kauf, erklärt Technik und Ausrüstung und übersetzt das Fachchinesisch in einfache und verständliche Worte.Shek Hon beschreibt 46 verschiedene Tricks für Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene und Cracks. Beim Lesen und Üben wird schnell deutlich, warum das 20-Zoll-Bike gern als "das vielseitigste Fahrrad, das jemals erfunden wurde", bezeichnet wird.Das steckt in diesem Buch:- 46 verschiedene Tricks zum Nachmachen- viele Bildsequenzen, die die Tricks zeigen- einfaches und logisch aufgebautes Lernsystem- Service-Tipps zu Schutzausrüstung und Bike-Kauf- Shop: buecher
- Price: 20.50 EUR excl. shipping
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Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 496min
The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Flaggler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008498/bk_adbl_008498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Generalissimo
Generalissimo ab 15.36 € als epub eBook: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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Section 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
This could only be written by a Marine with combat fatigue who knows Marines and history. It will be loved by those who loved Catch 22, MASH, and One Flew over the Coo Coo's Nest. These Marines and this story is insanely original because it is based in more truth than you will ever believe. It is 1946 and President Truman is trying to get re-elected with the help of Standard Oil but Standard Oil is demanding that a mysterious deal be struck with Chiang Kai Shek. Truman hates the Marine Corps and is working hard to disband Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. He almost has congress convinced that the Corps is obsolete now that we have the A-bomb. He has sent what is left of the Corps to China to aid Shek in fighting the Communists. Poor Welcome George Many Numbers is an oval shaped Navajo Tribal Accountant in Window Rock, Arizona who speaks with questionable monotone wisdom in two languages. He is a former Marine Corporal and decorated hero whose services were no longer required when it was decided that he was partially crazy due to combat fatigue and given a Section Eight discharge as unfit for duty. But when Welcome awakens from a frying pan-induced coma in a Naval hospital in China and discovers that he was delivered there by Sidney Mosedale the Press Secretary to President Truman, he seeks escape. The Navajo soon discovers that he is on a mission to save the Marine Corps. Welcome loves the Corps and he is not bitter about being a Section Eight because he understands, after therapy, that Section Eight is a temporary state unlike Canada or Kentucky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H Fehskens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098729/bk_acx0_098729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emily Hahn on China
Emily Hahn on China ab 31.99 € als epub eBook: Chiang Kai-Shek and China Only Yesterday 1850-1950. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
- Price: 31.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Mission to China
Mission to China ab 49.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Memoirs of a Soviet Military Adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,- Shop: hugendubel
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Mission to China
Mission to China ab 30.99 € als Taschenbuch: Memoirs of a Soviet Military Adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
- Price: 30.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy ab 29.99 € als epub eBook: Reading Sun Yat-sen Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
- Price: 29.99 EUR excl. shipping