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China At War

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The book is in good condition.  It does not have a dust jacket and the boards are a little worn on the spine and edges.  Complete with pull out map attached at the back of the book.

Author: Freda Utley

Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited

Published On: c1939

Pages: 306

Country: London: United Kingdom

Language: English

Dimension: 15cm x 22.5cm

Item Weight: 600gm

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Winifred Utley (23 January 1898 – 21 January 1978), commonly known as Freda Utley, was an English scholar, political activist and best-selling author. After visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 as a trade union activist, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1928. Later, married and living in Moscow, she quickly became disillusioned with communism. When her Russian husband, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was arrested in 1936, she escaped to England with her young son. (Her husband was executed in 1938.)

In 1938, Utley published two books on Japan's military attacks on China at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Japan's Gamble in China, with an introduction by Laski, described Japan as "a police state, governed by a bureaucracy wedded to a plutocracy." The News Chronicle made her a war correspondent and she spent three months in China in 1938, making two trips to the front line. Her 1939 book China at War idealized the Chinese communists. The work aroused considerable popular sympathy for China and helped foment poor relations with Japan prior to World War II. Her goal was to make for herself an international reputation and prove her communist credentials to free her husband. Author Francis Beckett includes a chapter on Utley's ordeals in his 2004 book Stalin's British Victims. (Wikipedia)

 

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Weight 600 g
Dimensions 15 × 3.5 × 22.5 cm
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