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Rana Mitter

Biography

Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter is a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including A BITTER REVOLUTION. He is a regular contributor to British television and radio. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere.

Rana Mitter

Books by Rana Mitter

Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
by Rana Mitter - History, Nonfiction

For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter and political intrigue remains little known in the West. No 20th-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.