Lawrence M. Kaplan is the historian for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
""A full biography of a... western military dreamer with grand
designs for China."-- Diplomat & International Canada" --
""An extraordinary contribution to the history of American-Chinese
relations and the book belongs to libraries worldwide."--Center for
Research of Geopolitics" --
""An interesting, sometimes, amusing read, Homer Lea is
particularly valuable in reminding us that clandestine
international political networks and military organizations are not
new developments."-- NYMAS" --
""His documentation is thorough, and he supplements the text with
unique and supporting color plates from both family and personal
collections."-- Military Review" --
""Now largely forgotten, Homer Lea, from the late 1890s until his
death in 1912 at a few days short of age 36, played a significant
role in China's access to the highest political circles on three
continents and responsibility for recruiting and training some
2,000 young Chinese-American men to serve as officers for the
cause."-- New York Military Affairs Symposium Review" --
""The five-foot-three-inch hunchback who only weighed 100 pounds
and dropped out of Stanford College managed to convince
high-ranking Chinese officials that he was not only a military
expert but also the relative of the famous Confederate General
Robert E. Lee. With his proclamation he found himself poised on the
brink of immense change in the Chinese government."-- Military
Review" --
""The story of Homer Lea's involvement and adventures with Chinese
reformers and revolutionaries both in the United States and China
in the early-twentieth-century could come directly from a modern
novel of international intrigue." -- John T. Greenwood, editor of
Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges
and the First U.S. Army" --
""This book is probably as thorough a recounting of Lea's life as
there will ever be."-- Journal of America's Military Past" --
""What we knew hitherto about the self-proclaimed 'General, ' Homer
Lea, was based on a jumble of often contradictory or problematic
sources. Lawrence Kaplan cuts through the myths and offers a
coherent and convincing analysis of Lea's actual connections with
Chinese reformers and his role in the training of Chinese military
cadets in the United States over a century ago. An intriguing
tale." -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China"
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"Kaplan has undertaken a difficult task, well accomplished, in
reconstructing a biography of a figure who was controversial while
living and continued to be after his death. This book will be of
value to those whose interests are in the areas of Sino-American
relations, American adventurers, or the events leading to the
Pacific War." -- Journal of Military History
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