 Operation Ichi-go created a great sense of social confusion in the areas of China that it affected.Chinese Communist guerrillas were able to exploit this confusion to gain influence and control of greater areas of the countryside in the aftermath of Ichi-go.The 1958 novel "The Mountain Road", by Theodore White, a "Time" magazine correspondent in China at the time of the offensive, was based on an interview with former OSS Major Frank Gleason, who led a demolition group of American soldiers during the offensive that were charged with blowing up anything left behind in the retreat that might be of use to Japan.