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Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line
Szonyi, Michael (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line
Szonyi, Michael (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's People's Republic. Michael Szonyi discusses the history of the island during this period.
328 pages, 32 b/w illus. 2 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 17, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780521726405 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Dimensions | 150 × 229 × 24 mm · 468 g |
Language | English |