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Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces, 1937–1945
is the first English-
language nutsand-bolts handbook dedicated to coverage of the organization
and weapons of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. It uses a mixture
of many Chinese secondary sources, including document collections, along
with primary sources held in the West, among them original Chinese
documents from the files of the US China Theater, now in the US National
Archives.
A brief description of the war in China is followed by detailed
examinations of the national arsenals, and the NRA’s tactical organization
and weaponry, featuring illustrations and data never before seen in the West.
Leland Ness has been conducting and supervising defense analysis and
writing military history for over 40 years. He served as director of special
projects at DMS/Jane’s, published a newsletter on ground ordnance for the
defense industry, and has been an editor at Jane’s for the last ten years (for
Jane’s Ammunition Handbook
and
Jane’s Infantry Weapons).
He is also the
co-author of the classic
Red Army Handbook,
and the author of the
HarperCollins
WWII Tanks and Combat Vehicles,
and the two-volume
Rikugun,
a study of the Japanese Army in World War II. He has been
particularly interested in Asian military history since graduating with a
degree in Oriental Studies and Language. During 28 years in the Army
Reserve, he served with Headquarters, US Army Intelligence Agency, on
active duty during Desert Storm.
Bin Shih was born in Tainan, Taiwan of first-generation mainlanders from
the 1949 conflict. He graduated from Cheng Kung University with a degree
in hydraulic engineering and later studied at Syracuse University. He was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry of the ROC Army and
served as an S3 training officer. Always interested in Chinese history and
small arms in general he started researching and collecting modern Chinese
firearms in 1999 due to the absence of reliable information on the subject. He
is also the author of
China’s Small Arms of the Second Sino-Japanese War
(2005 in Taiwan; 2009 & 2014 in China; 2011 & 2014 in English).
KANGZHAN
GUIDE TO CHINESE GROUND FORCES 1937–1945
Leland Ness
with
Bin Shih
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Published by Helion & Company 2016
Designed and typeset by Donald Sommerville, Montacute, Somerset
Cover designed by Paul Hewitt, Battlefield Design (www.battlefield-design.co.uk)
Text © Leland Ness 2016
Photographs © US National Archives unless otherwise noted
Front cover:
The 74th Army was one of the few field armies to benefit from the arrival of
new artillery in 1938–41. Here, one of its Soviet-made 76mm pack howitzers is in action in
Hunan province in early May 1945. Within a few weeks these had been replaced by units
with American 75mm pack howitzers.
Rear cover:
Light tank of the 1st Provisional Tank
Group approaching Myitkyina in December 1944.
ISBN 978-1-910294-42-0
eISBN 978-1-912174-46-1
Mobi ISBN 978-1-912174-46-1
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