During the United States presidential debate of 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy, the topic of defending the tiny island of Kinmen off the southeast coast of China brought worldwide attention. Little more than one year before, the island was a bloody battlefield between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists. It was bombarded with a half-million artillery shelves. Thousands of innocent civilians, along with soldiers on both sides, perished. It was the height of the Cold War: the Soviet Union backed the Communists, the United States manipulated the Nationalists. This is the diary of a...
During the United States presidential debate of 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy, the topic of defending the tiny island of Kinmen off the southeast coa...
