Free Download Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5B8W2CT | 2023 | 7 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Toshi Yoshihara
Narrator: Catherine Ho
From 1949 to 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made crucial decisions to establish a navy and secure China’s periphery. The civil war had been fought with a peasant army, yet in order to capture key offshore islands from the Nationalist rival, Mao Zedong needed to develop maritime capabilities. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea is a ground-breaking history of the founding of the Chinese navy and Communist China’s earliest island-seizing campaigns. In this definitive account of a critical moment in China’s naval history, Toshi Yoshihara shows that Chinese leaders refashioned the stratagems and tactics honed over decades of revolutionary struggle on land for nautical purposes.
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