The secret army : Chiang Kai-Shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle /

After their defeat in china's civil war, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's armies took refuge in Burma before being driven into Thailand and Laos. Based on recently declassified government documents, The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle reveals the shoc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gibson, Richard M., Chen, Wenhua (Historian) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Wiley, 2011.
Temas:
Chiang, Kai-shek, > 1887-1975.
Chiang, Kai-shek, > 1887-1975
1900-1999
Narcotics > China.
Drogues > Chine.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Narcotics
China > History > 20th century.
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Triangle d'Or (Asie du Sud-Est)
Asia > Golden Triangle
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: two young Chinese soldiers
  • Retreat from Yunnan
  • Sorting things out in Tachilek
  • Lieutenant General Li Mi
  • Li Mi and his American friends
  • Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army
  • Attacking Yunnan
  • Washington opts out
  • Li Mi's army aettles into Burma
  • Washington cuts its losses
  • Southern strategy and Karen allies
  • The road to the United Nations
  • The United Nations vs. KMT duplicity
  • First evacuation from Burma
  • Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist volunteer army
  • A resurgent KMT
  • Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese forces rout the KMT
  • Air battle over Burma and American weapons
  • The second KMT evacuation
  • Removing KMT remnants from Laos
  • Nationalist Chinese armies in Thailand
  • Thailand's troublesome guests
  • Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense
  • Resettlement in Thailand
  • Soldiering on for Thailand
  • Postscript.

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