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China has been the location of numerous wars and conflicts since ancient times. The nation has evolved into a global military superpower, and many people would consider it to be America's chief geopolitical foe. Explore China's military past and future by taking 25% off select Chinese military history titles!

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Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze

Peter Harmsen

This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th Century. At its height, it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world.

Written by Peter Harmsen, a foreign correspondent in East Asia for two decades, and former bureau chief in Taiwan for the French news agency AFP, Shanghai 1937 fills a gaping chasm in our understanding of the Second World War.

9781612003092, $24.95 USD – $18.71 USD, Casemate

Red Star Versus Rising Sun, Volume 1: The Conquest of Manchuria 1931-1938

Adrien Fontanellaz

During the first half of the 20th Century, Czarist Russia and then the successor Soviet Union fought a series of undeclared wars against the Empire of Japan in the Far East. As the century continued, Japanese forces expanded into China and created the puppet state of Manchukuo that would become a vital resource for further imperial ambition. This expansion inevitably brought the empires of the Rising Sun and the Red Star ever closer on the ground, and in 1938 the two armies clashed at Lake Khasan, the first of a number of battles.

Volume 1 of the Red Star Versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th Century up until 1938. It examines the culture, structure and equipment of the IJA and its campaigns in warlord-era China, along with an overview of the purge-ravaged Red Army of the same period. This volume culminates in a detailed description of the major clash of the Soviet and Japanese armies at Lake Khasan in 1938.

9781914377808, $29.95 USD – $22.46 USD, Helion and Company

The Dragon's Teeth: The Chinese People's Liberation Army – Its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century

Benjamin Lai

Successive decades of economic growth have transformed China so that by now the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has become a modern fighting force. No longer having to rely on massed infantry attacks, it now features a formidable arsenal including nuclear submarines, ICBMs, stealth fighters, and modern battle tanks. Perhaps ominously for other maritime powers, the Chinese have also focused on beyond-the-horizon missile technology, as well as anti-aircraft systems, and have also explored the possibilities of cyber-warfare.

What is today's PLA really like? What are its traditions and histories, and how is it armed and equipped? How does it recruit and train? This book describes some of the lesser known battles and wars the Chinese have undertaken, and the development of their key weapons systems. The United States, having opened the door to "drone warfare," have had an attentive audience for such technologies in Beijing.

9781636240572, $24.95 USD $18.71 USD, Casemate

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