Informationen zum Autor Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961 and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306, Chinese Civil War Armies 191149 , and since then he has published numerous other titles for Osprey including MAA 414, The Russo-Japanese War 190405 , MAA 532, Japan's Asian Allies 194145 and NVG 19, Armour in China 19201950 . He lives in North Lincolnshire, UK. Klappentext The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40 years of conflict in China. From the abdication of Pu-Yi, the last emperor, the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese, and the 'long march', to the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, this book looks in detail at the fighting men, and women, who fought for the communists, imperialists, republicans, nationalists, warlords and the puppet armies. The result is a comprehensive and illuminating work covering a large and complex series of combatants and conflicts. Zusammenfassung The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40 years of strife and conflict. This work looks at the fighting men and women who fought for the communists, imperialists, warlords and the Japanese. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction · Chronology/The Imperial Army · The Republican Army · The Warlords · Organisation · The Nationalist Army · The Communist Army · Puppet Armies · The Civil War, 1945-49 · Further Reading · The Plates

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Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961, and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. He has written a number of books for Osprey including a three-part sequence on The Italian Army 1940-45 (MAA 340, 349 and 353). A rugby league enthusiast and amateur genealogist, he is married and lives in Leeds.

Stephen Andrew was born in 1961 in Glasgow, where he still lives and works. An entirely self-taught artist, he worked in advertising and design agencies before going freelance in 1993. Military history is his passion, and in the past few years he has established himself as a respected artist in this field. Since 1997 he has illustrated half a dozen Men-at-Arms titles including a five-part sequence on The German Army 1939-45 (MAA 311, 316, 326, 330 and 336).

Klappentext

The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40 years of conflict in China. From the abdication of Pu-Yi, the last emperor, the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese, and the 'long march', to the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, this book looks in detail at the fighting men, and women, who fought for the communists, imperialists, republicans, nationalists, warlords and the puppet armies. The result is a comprehensive and illuminating work covering a large and complex series of combatants and conflicts.

Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive and illuminating work covering a large and complex series of combatants and conflicts.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chronology
The Imperial Army
The Republican Army
The Warlords
Organisation
The Nationalist Army
The Communist Army
Puppet Armies
The Civil War, 1945-49
Further Reading
The Plates