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Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…
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Chinese history is deeply strange. One of the most jarring parts of it (at least to modern eyes) are the images of Chinese Nationalist troops wearing Wehrmacht-designed uniforms and carrying Mauser Kar98k rifles during World War II. It looks absurd, but it actually happened, and therein lies a fascinating story. The German Connection By the 1890s, the feeble Qing Dynasty was desperately trying to modernize its armed forces so that it could reassert control over its territory, which was by that time covered with a patchwork of treaty ports and concessions. China’s inland waterways were patrolled by foreign warships and…
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