Arthur Waldron
Author of The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Canto original series)
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What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contributor — 1,934 copies, 27 reviews
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "China Without Tears" — 17 copies
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Although what was new in 1990 has percolated into every other book by now, this is splendidly written and conceived.
In very short: walls were a matter of politics. He examines the politics. Ming in the main, but Ming make a typical story and similar debates went on in other eras. In fact the old debates - offence/defence, treaty or hostility - cycled and cycled... He tells you that.
Certainly where to go for an introduction to walls.
In very short: walls were a matter of politics. He examines the politics. Ming in the main, but Ming make a typical story and similar debates went on in other eras. In fact the old debates - offence/defence, treaty or hostility - cycled and cycled... He tells you that.
Certainly where to go for an introduction to walls.
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