{"product_id":"2026200015497-secondhand-thunder-out-of-china","title":"Thunder Out Of China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of World War II, two American journalists embedded in China witnessed firsthand the catastrophic collapse of a nation torn apart by war, famine, and political corruption — and their account remains one of the most urgent and unflinching dispatches ever written from the Asian theatre. Thunder Out of China chronicles the turbulent years of Nationalist China under Chiang Kai-shek, documenting the suffering of the Chinese peasantry, the failures of the Kuomintang government, and the ominous rise of Mao Zedong's Communist forces with the precision of seasoned war correspondents and the moral clarity of witnesses to history.\n\nTheodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby write with a visceral, reportorial intensity that brings the chaos and contradictions of wartime China to vivid life, presenting a portrait of a civilization at a crossroads. The book stands as a landmark of mid-twentieth-century political journalism, arguing with compelling force that the seeds of China's Communist revolution were sown by the very corruption and incompetence of its wartime rulers — a conclusion that shocked Western readers and proved profoundly prophetic. Decades after its publication, it endures as an essential primary document for understanding how the world's most populous nation arrived at its fateful turning point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203212386523,"sku":"2026200015497-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1277393c-c451-41c4-9f46-0555f007d498.png?v=1788145895","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015497-secondhand-thunder-out-of-china","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}