Enter The Dragon: China at War in Korea

History

Spurr, Russell

Asia

SIDGWICK JACKSON

A Glorious Way to Die

Tells the story of the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, and how it was sent on a virtual suicide mission to stop the American invasion of Okinawa

Americas

BANTAM BOOKS

Military

Newmarket Pr

Reissued to coincide with the 60th anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Korean War, this gripping, dramatic military classic re-creates six pivotal months in the conflict, told from both the Chinese and Allied sides.The Korean War was, years before Vietnam, the first great East-West military misadventure, eventually engaging sixteen countries under the U.N. flag in war against China and North Korea. Enter the Dragon examines the Chinese side of the Korean War for the first time, re-creating and dramatizing Communist China's reluctant role in the undeclared war against the U.S. in Korea. Russell Spurr's military classic is drawn from firsthand recollections of observers and participants on both sides, and focuses on six pivotal months, beginning in August 1950, when China first deliberated intervention, through their first strike in October, to the standstill at the end of January 1951.Based on five years of research and over 20 fact-finding trips to the People's Republic of China and Korea, Enter the Dragon describes why China became involved in Korea and how its strategy evolved, and re-creates life on the front lines, conference rooms, and in the streets of the embattled cities.

Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-51

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Henry Holt Company

A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945

The Yamato was the biggest battleship ever built. First of a class of superships built secretly before World War II, she was the proudest technological achievement of a nation newly emerged as a naval power. Yet before she was commissioned, in December 1941, the Japanese themselves rendered the battleship obsolete by their carrier strike against Pearl Harbor. Throughout most of the Pacific war the pride of the Imperial Japanese navy was relegated to minor roles - until the American invasion of Okinawa. It was then, with the navy whittled away, that a desperate Japanese High Command decided to throw Yamato into the battle. The mighty ship was ordered to attack the invading force - the greatest assemblage of warships the world had ever seen - backed only by eight escorts. No planes or pilots could be spared to provide air cover. Combat directives made it clear that this was a one-way Kamikaze mission. The Japanese were intercepted on April 7, 1945, some 200 miles from Okinawa. American carriers threw more aircraft at the intruders than the Japanese used against Pearl Harbor. Within two hours, Yamato and most of her escorts were sunk or crippled. At final count 260 officers and men were saved from Yamato. The dead totaled 3,063. Russell Spurr sets the story of the Yamato against the background of Japanese suicide war tactics. He has recorded eyewitness accounts from the men involved, Japanese and Americans, from top admirals to fighter pilots to junior ships' gunners. He portrays the reaction of the sailors as they receive and carry out the orders to attack - and to die. He probes the politics and mentality of the Japanese leadership and the morale and spirit of the fighting men and the nation. What emerges is more than a story of a sortie or a ship. To quote the author: "The result...offers some insights into the agonizing dilemma of a misguided, courageous people who persisted in continuing a hopeless war."

A glorious way to die: The kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945

NEWMARKET PRESS

Newmarket, 1988

The only book to dramatize from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare. 49 b/w photos; graphs, maps, bibliography, index.

Reissued to coincide with the 60th anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Korean War, this gripping, dramatic military classic re-creates six pivotal months in the conflict, told from both the Chinese and Allied sides.
The Korean War was, years before Vietnam, the first great East-West military misadventure, eventually engaging sixteen countries under the U.N. flag in war against China and North Korea. Enter the Dragon examines the Chinese side of the Korean War for the first time, re-creating and dramatizing Communist China's reluctant role in the undeclared war against the U.S. in Korea. Russell Spurr's military classic is drawn from firsthand recollections of observers and participants on both sides, and focuses on six pivotal months, beginning in August 1950, when China first deliberated intervention, through their first strike in October, to the standstill at the end of January 1951.
Based on five years of research and over 20 fact-finding trips to the People's Republic of China and Korea, Enter the Dragon describes why China became involved in Korea and how its strategy evolved, and re-creates life on the front lines, conference rooms, and in the streets of the embattled cities.

Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-1951

William Morrow Paperbacks

Acclaimed by Critics, Historians, and Military Leaders the World Over

A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato

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Enter The Dragon: China at War in Korea

A Glorious Way to Die

A Glorious Way to Die

Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-51

A glorious way to die: The kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945

A Glorious Way to Die

Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-51

A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945

Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-1951

A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato