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Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. In the past 10 years, no one in the West-or even the World-has done more to portray China’s role in World War II to a wider audience than Rana Mitter.Ģ003’s Forgotten Ally is the epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan. Mason Distinguished Lecture on World War II Steph Hinnershitz of the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy

A conversation between Sir Rana Mitter and Dr.