After the Communist victory in Manchuria, they march into Eastern China.  The capital Beijing falls to them after a 40 day siege.  The Communist win another major victory in a battle in Eastern China.  An account of Deng Xiaoping (a future leader of China) during the Chinese Civil War.  How Communist terror gained them control of the countryside.

Chiang Kai-Shek in June 1946 sends his Nationalist Army into North China and Manchuria to destroy the Communists.  The American Government imposed an arms embargo which includes, new motor lorries, the Nationalist supply system collapses.  The Nationalist forces in Manchuria are first besieged and then defeated by the 8th Red Route Army commanded by Lin Biao, his biography is given. 

After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Chinese Nationalist reoccupied the cites of Eastern Police along with them came their secret police led by Dai Li, known as the Chinese Himmler, his biography is given.  Under American and Soviet Government pressure Chiang Kai Shek and Mao meet and pretend to reach a peace agreement.  In fact fighting was already breaking in some areas as early as 1945.

The Long March to Civil War

The background to the Chinese Civil War, the fighting between the Nationalists and the Communists, in the twenties and thirites.  The Long March when Mao led the Communists to North China.  The uneasy peace between the two sides in order to fight the Japanese from 1937.  A biography of Nationalist leader Chian Kai-Shek.  The problems within the Chinese Nationalist Army in their war against Japan.  August 1945 when the Soviet Red Army invades Manchuria.