Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China
Phil Saunders was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army in 1942. After receiving further training at Fort Benning and serving as a training officer at Camp Wheeler, he was assigned as a combat liaison officer with Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army in China. He arrived in the China-Burma-India theater in the fall of 1943 and soon discovered the Chinese soldiers were underfed, underpaid, unprepared for combat, and reluctant to engage the Japanese.

Advising Chiang's Army details Phil's two years spent in China and describes how the troops he worked with gradually became an effective fighting force, shifted from defensive to offensive combat, and ultimately defeated the enemy. The book also recounts his post-war career in state politics and with the National Labor Relations Board.

Advising Chiang's Army won a CIPA EVVY Merit Book Award in the Military/Military History category.
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Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China
Phil Saunders was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army in 1942. After receiving further training at Fort Benning and serving as a training officer at Camp Wheeler, he was assigned as a combat liaison officer with Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army in China. He arrived in the China-Burma-India theater in the fall of 1943 and soon discovered the Chinese soldiers were underfed, underpaid, unprepared for combat, and reluctant to engage the Japanese.

Advising Chiang's Army details Phil's two years spent in China and describes how the troops he worked with gradually became an effective fighting force, shifted from defensive to offensive combat, and ultimately defeated the enemy. The book also recounts his post-war career in state politics and with the National Labor Relations Board.

Advising Chiang's Army won a CIPA EVVY Merit Book Award in the Military/Military History category.
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Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China

Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China

by Stephen L. Wilson
Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China

Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China

by Stephen L. Wilson

Overview

Phil Saunders was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army in 1942. After receiving further training at Fort Benning and serving as a training officer at Camp Wheeler, he was assigned as a combat liaison officer with Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army in China. He arrived in the China-Burma-India theater in the fall of 1943 and soon discovered the Chinese soldiers were underfed, underpaid, unprepared for combat, and reluctant to engage the Japanese.

Advising Chiang's Army details Phil's two years spent in China and describes how the troops he worked with gradually became an effective fighting force, shifted from defensive to offensive combat, and ultimately defeated the enemy. The book also recounts his post-war career in state politics and with the National Labor Relations Board.

Advising Chiang's Army won a CIPA EVVY Merit Book Award in the Military/Military History category.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780978960056
Publisher: Joycliff Press
Publication date: 05/24/2024
Series: South Dakota Patriots
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Stephen L. Wilson is an award-winning author and a former adjunct professor in the History and Political Science Department at Concordia University-St. Paul. In 2013, he retired from a 35-year law career. During that time, he worked for three different law firms and spent five years with the U. S. Agency for International Development General Counsel's Office in Washington, D.C. From 1991 until retirement, he was a partner with Foley & Mansfield in Minneapolis.

In 1970, Wilson graduated from the University of South Dakota with a B.A. in Government. He then enrolled at England's Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, completed the Philosophy, Politics and Economics course, and was awarded B.A. and M.A. degrees. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan. When he graduated from college, Wilson was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He served on active duty in 1973 at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. After six years in the Ready Reserve, he was honorably discharged with the rank of captain.

Stephen has been married to Kristine since 1977, and they have three adult children. His interests include traveling, hiking, fly fishing, golf, getting together with family and friends, reading nonfiction, and listening to music and public radio.

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