Imperial Chinese Armies (2) 590-1260 AD (Men-At-Arms, No 295)

Rating:
Summary: Weak on some topics
Review: The Men-at-arms Series covers ancient and classical China in five books, all by Chris Peers who is very familiar with the subject. This is the third book in this series. The chapters: Chronology -- The Sui dynasty -- The T'ang -- Sui and T'ang armies -- The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms -- The Sung dynasty -- Sung armies -- The Liao -- The Hsi Hsia -- The Kin dynasty -- Military science and technology -- Nine important battles. The text focuses on telling Chinas military history; it is very weak on topics like weapons or battle tactics. The drawings by Michael Perry are ok. The maps are primitive and not very useful. This book is the sequel to "Imperial Chinese Armies 200BC - 589AD" (MAA284). The next book in the series is "Medieval Chinese Armies 1260 - 1520" (MAA 251).