THE UNITED STATES 15TH INFANTRY REGIMENT IN CHINA, 1912-1938

THE UNITED STATES 15TH INFANTRY REGIMENT IN CHINA, 1912-1938, Alfred Emile Cornebise, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2004, 284 pages, $45.00.

Alfred Emile Cornebise's The United States 15th Infantry Regiment in China, 1912-1938, provides insight into an exotic, almost forgotten era of U.S. regimental annals. The 15th Infantry Regiment's (IR) experience in China from 1912 to 1938 epitomizes the U.S. Army's small constabulary forces that existed before the massed armies of World War II.

The 15th IR, which operated as an isolated garrison in China, had an...