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

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