The Atlas of China War History is the first large-scale historical atlas in the history of China that systematically and completely reflects the development of China war. It covers a wide range of contents, and pays equal attention to pictures and texts: from the armed conflict at the end of primitive society to the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, it reflects the development process and typical war cases of China War in the past 5,000 years according to three historical periods: ancient, modern and modern. A total of 430 pictures were collected, including ancient (prehistoric to early Qing dynasty) 170; Modern 220 (1840 ~1949); There is a 10 modern war to resist US aggression and aid Korea. There are also 30 battle maps, more than 500,000 explanatory texts, and hundreds of drawings, historical materials, pictures (tables) and photos of cultural relics. With the map as the carrier and protagonist, the image intuitively reproduces the glorious years of China for thousands of years.

The Atlas of China War History shows more than 400 typical maps of wars and battles by combining the latest achievements of war research in various historical periods and exquisite modern cartography technology. Through the use of symbolic language and color language, it reproduces the classic wars of past dynasties in a three-dimensional way. Among them, 170 ancient war maps objectively reproduce the great promotion of Chinese national unity war and peasant war to social progress; There are more than 230 maps of modern wars, which mainly reflect the military thoughts of China's * * * production party and Comrade Mao Zedong on the strategy and tactics of revolutionary war; The map of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea shows the peace-loving concept of the sons and daughters of New China and their strong will to defend their country. In addition, the use of more than 500 thousand words, as well as related cultural relics pictures, charts, weapons knowledge, works of art and other materials, has added reading interest to readers.

The Atlas of China's War History lasted for more than six years from its operation to its completion, and it condensed the painstaking efforts and wisdom of hundreds of experts, scholars and professional cartographers inside and outside the military. Senior generals such as Zhang zhen and Chi Haotian, former vice-chairmen of the Central Military Commission, served as invited consultants for this book; Famous experts such as, Huang, Mi Zhenyu,, served as academic consultants. This is an authoritative work to study the historical map of China War, and it is also a vivid teaching material for national defense education and patriotism education in the new period.