{"product_id":"new-fourth-army-communist-resistance-along-the-yangtze-and-the-huai-19381941-9780520219922","title":"New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance Along the Yangtze and the Huai  1938-1941","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his prizewinning Mountain Fires: The Red Armys Three-Year War in South China  1934-1938  Gregor Benton traced the fate of the Communist rear guard that stayed behind when the Red Army set off on the Long March. After three bloody years  the survivors regrouped as the New Fourth Army  which later helped to drive the Nationalists from the mainland. In this sequel to Mountain Fires  Benton describes the first three years of this army  and its triangular war with the Nationalists and the Japanese.  Like the Three-Year War from which it stemmed  the New Fourth Army was for many years neglected by historians  mainly because of the absence from it of Mao Zedong  around whom the story of the Chinese Revolution was largely written until his death in 1976. With the downgrading of the Mao cult and the return of some power to the regions (where New Fourth Army veterans held power) in the 1980s  new sources on the New Fourth Army became available. This study  which combines a thematic and a narrative approach  makes exhaustive use of these and other sources to explain the original features of this youthful army  which was no outgrowth or faithful copy of Maos senior and better-known Eighth Route Army but a body with its own origins and history  and which fought its war in a quite different political  military  and social setting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666071871541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520219929","price":85.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520219922.jpg?v=1782417972","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/new-fourth-army-communist-resistance-along-the-yangtze-and-the-huai-19381941-9780520219922","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}