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China’s Wars: Rousing the Dragon, 1894-1949

By Philip Jowett

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (36207519 bytes)
Series
Osprey General Military
Pages
407\407
Time added
2017-10-16 09:29:42

Description

China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will. Chinas Wars describes the series of conflicts from 1894 to 1949 that forged modern China, from colonial clashes such as the Boxer Rebellion, through the chaotic years of warlord domination to the Japanese invasion, the Second World War and the bitter Civil War that followed. Previously unpublished photographs, contemporary pictures and specially-commissioned maps illustrate these tumultuous events and the men who fought them, events that would end with the eventual triumph of the Communist Party and the rise of modern China.

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