BOOKS - MILITARY HISTORY - A Military History of China
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A Military History of China
Author: Edited by David A. Graff and Robin Higham
Year: 2012
Number of pages: 344
Format: PDF
File size: 29.8 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2012
Number of pages: 344
Format: PDF
File size: 29.8 MB
Language: ENG
Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century. China's ability to sustain complex warfare on a very large scale was not emulated in other parts of the world until the Industrial Age, despite the fact that the country is only now rising to economic dominance.