The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and

The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

â€œMagnificent!â€ (South China Morning Post)
â€œA wonderful read!â€ (JoongAng Daily News)
â€œThe scope is truly vast!â€ (Seoul Magazine)
â€œLike a prelude to Shogun!"(StrategyPage.com)
â€œA feast!â€ (Shogun-ki)

In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Koreaâ€™s southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as imjin waeran, the â€œImjin invasion,â€ after the year of the water dragon in which it began, dwarfed contemporary conflicts in Europe and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years.

The Imjin War is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of this cataclysmic event, so little known in the West. It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic impasse that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way. There is Hideyoshi, hosting garden parties as his armies march toward Beijing; Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, emerging from a prison cell to take on the Japanese navy with just thirteen ships; Chinese commander Zhao Chengxun, suffering defeat after promising to â€œscatter the Japanese to the four windsâ€; the courtesan Chu Non-gae, luring a samurai into her arms and then jumping into the Nam River with him locked in her embrace.

One nation fighting to expand, another to survive. Shockwaves extending across China and beyond. The Imjin War is an epic tale of grand perspective and intimate detail of an upheaval that would shape East Asia for centuries to come.
Country USA
Manufacturer Conquistador Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Conquistador Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-09-03
Format	Kindle eBook

The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

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