The Military History of China: From 1218 to the Present Day

by Erik Durschmied

Book Overview

A dramatic survey of a millennium of monumental collisions between China and the West.

Long the world's most populous country, China has always flexed its muscles beyond its borders. Today, China stands on the threshold of global economic domination, a true rival to the United States: in a generation or so it will be twice as wealthy as the US, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy combined.

Bestselling author Erik Durschmied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0233005412
• ISBN13: 9780233005416
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

The Subtitle TO PRESENT is Egregiously Inaccurate, Even for 2008

China's history is so long, even a 600 page book will have obvious holes. Likewise, anyone studying China is going to focus on some aspect of China as their specialty, because, again, there is almost no bigger subject in the world. If you want a very good military history of China before 1970, this is a great primer. From the 1970s and forward, a lot of China's military history is not included, even though by 2008 it would have been more sourceable than any other subject period. Since my interest is their long range missiles and space craft, at least the Soviet seedings leading to deployable IRBMs and later the development of ICBM and space launch rockets would have been a minimum in 2008 to earn the To Present. Good China military history to around the 1980s but egregiously lacking China's amazing aerospace track record, and possibly the most important issue to North America since the 1990s, well in time. Three Stars