A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 by Kenneth M. Swope

A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

Campaigns and Commanders #20

Kenneth M. Swope

432 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotom...

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