The only book in my library, which is also in Homer’s, is Barbara Tuchman’s “Stilwell and the American Experience in China.” It concentrates on our wartime alliance with China through the biography of our top man there.
Because so much of Stilwell’s efforts were directed to clearing an overland route to China through Burma, that theater gets a good deal of coverage. But this theater was a backwater sideshow for most of the war. It had to rely on table scraps in terms of resources, from America and Britain. So there isn’t much written about it.
I take Tuchman with a grain of salt, as I suspected her of Chicom sympathies. Other posters here have disagreed with me.
I've grow tired of the who lost China issue. I don't see how it was within the power of the U.S. to save Chiang from himself, the damage done to his government by the Japanese, and the aid the Sov's gave the ChiComs. Certainly not within the constraints of the post-War politics of both parties.
I read somewhere that when Stilwell finally got his Ledo road open it never came close to carrying the tonnage the airlift still provided. Without opening a port city we just couldn't provide much to China.