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  • The Long March 1934–35

    The rise of Mao and the beginning of modern China

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 341 - Campaign
    This study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey that would lead to their eventual triumph and rule of the whole of China.Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shanghai and Nanjing 1937

    Massacre on the Yangtze

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 309 - Campaign
    A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hong Kong 1941–45

    First strike in the Pacific War

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 263 - Campaign
    The invasion and conquest of Hong Kong formed part of the staggering series of Japanese conquests across the Far East in late 1941 and early 1942.On 8th December 1941, as part of the simultaneous combined attack against Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) invaded the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia and the British colony of Hong Kong. After only 18 days of battle the defenders, a ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (3)

    The Republic of Korea Army and the United Nations Command

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 571 - Men-at-Arms
    This book describes and illustrates the ground forces of the Republic of Korea and its United Nations allies during the Korean War, as well as the UN medical contingents in the conflict.The North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in June 1950 prompted an enormous international response, as first the United States and then a host of allied countries contributed combat troops or medical ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Chinese Battleship vs Japanese Cruiser

    Yalu River 1894

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 92 - Duel
    The 1894–95 war between China and Japan, known in the West as the First Sino-Japanese War, lasted only nine months, but its impact resonates today.The Chinese Beiyang (Northern) Fleet was led by her flagship, Dingyuan, and her sister ship*, Zhenyuan*, which were the biggest in Asia; German-built armoured turret ships, they were armed with four 12in guns and two 6in guns, plus six smaller guns and ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Chinese Soldier vs Japanese Soldier

    China 1937–38

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    Series Book 37 - Combat
    In July 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident sparked a bloody conflict between Chinese and Japanese forces that would rage across China and beyond for more than eight years.The two sides' forces brought very different strengths and limitations to the conflict. In 1937 China was divided into factions, each controlled by warlords with independent forces, and there was no unified Chinese army. In ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • When Brothers Fight

    Chinese Eyewitness Accounts of the Sino-Soviet Border Battles, 1969

    by Benjamin Lai, Zhang Yiming ...
    Series Book 48 - Asia@War
    In March 1969 the two giants of the Communist world – the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – came to blows over the control of a remote and uninhabited island on their mutual border in a conflict that risked barely controlled escalation, and in which the USSR gave consideration to the use of nuclear weapons.In 2021, Helion & Company published two books by ... Read more

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  • Shanghai 1937

    Stalingrad on the Yangtze

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.At its height, the Battle of Shanghai 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 imperialist adventure in China into a general war between the two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Kind of War

    The Classic Military History of the Korean War

    by T. R. Fehrenbach ...
    The book that former Defense Secretary James Mattis recommends as America faces the threat of conflict with North Korea.In a recent story, Newsweek reported: "Amid increasingly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and North Korea, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchange barbs and the threat of a nuclear conflict looms, Mattis responded to a question on how best to avoid such a war. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nanjing 1937

    Battle for a Doomed City

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    A true story of the Sino-Japanese conflict: A "valuable account of a little-known event [and] a grim reminder of the darker side of war" ( Military History Monthly).The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Korea

    The Ground War from Both Sides

    by Philip D. Chinnery ...
    Series series Images of War
    This illustrated history chronicles the ground combat of the Korean War through rare wartime photographs.The Korean War opened with the invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans in June 1950. Over the next three years, intense ground fighting led to heavy casualties and much suffering. This illustrated history traces the fluctuating fortunes of war from both sides.The South Koreans were saved ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 228 - Elite
    Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which have been fighting in the Donbas region since 2014.In February 2014, street protests in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities led to the ousting of the Russian-backed President Yanukovych. Simultaneously, Russia carried out ... Read more

    $15.99 USD