For the 100,000 Nationalist soldiers dug into the sandy soil of Quemoy Island, it was a grim week. While U.S. destroyers watched helplessly from outside the three-mile limit, Communist guns raked ...

As the U.S. moves through the battlefields of the cold war, it has three main roads to choose from. One is the high, hard-surfaced speedway to war; another is the low, crawling path to appeasement. In ...

FAMILIAR voices mingle and clash. General MacArthur, after studying a statue of himself in a public park, urges the abolition of war. (The ceremonies were held, it says, “in hazy sunshine.”) Senator ...

The standoff across the Taiwan Strait began during the Chinese Civil War, which pitted the fledgling Communists and the ruling Nationalist government. Originating in 1927, the civil war stretched into ...