Yeah - I read it probably about 5 years ago. I found it fascinating.

A lot of Americans think Stilwell was a communist agent. Being armed with an understanding of how obstinate and corrupt the generalissimo and his regime were makes me doubt that. The idea that 'we lost china' has always seemed strange to me. China is one of the worlds great civilsations, it was never Americas to loose or to decide what course they took and the futility of trying to foist our system on them seems doomed to fail from the start when you understand just how backwards China was at the time.