THE 1958 QUEMOY CRISIS AN ORAL HISTORY

I like to read history books, especially military history. In recent years, I have chance to know or obtain some good materials that I like to introduce to you. Although this conflict happened more than 50 years ago, rarely this type of historical information was published in English.

THE 1958 QUEMOY CRISIS AN ORAL HISTORY is published by the Military History and Translation office under Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China (Taiwan is usually called by westerners). This was the last major battle between Taiwan and Communist China and some of the U.S. military personals were involved.




The team worked on this book interviewed 28 people in the both military services and some of them became higher ranking officers in both countries. Lots of photos show readers people and events during that periods from different point of views.

I first heard this book last year from a friend of mine. I got it when I went back to Taiwan to visit families. I also had chance to obtain the other two in this series also published in English and I will introduce them later.

If you would like to order a copy from the published, here is the web site. The author of this blog offers couple copies he received and I am not sure he still has any available.

Enjoy it.