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    Posted: 19-Mar-2006 at 22:30

Here is a new book on Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, 1592-1598. It's on amazon.com.

"The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China," by Samuel Hawley

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8995442425/sr=8-1/qid=11428 23949/ref=sr_1_1/103-6784890-9776652?%5Fencoding=UTF8

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"In May of 1592, three hundred and fifty years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army aboard a thousand ships from Kyushu to Pusan on Koreas southern tip. Its 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 "Imjin invasion," after the year of the water dragon in which it began, involved 300,000 combatants and claimed more than two million lives. It dwarfed any contemporary conflict in Europe, and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years. "

I didn't know anything about this story at all. Thanks for the information.

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Here I have a free book link about the Imjin War from Chinese perspective.

The book Dragon's War  was regarded as one of the best historical novel of 2004 in China. I hope you could read Chinese.

http://book.sina.com.cn/nzt/lit/longzhanshanqianli/ 



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