Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance came in 1948, when he joined the staff of TIME. As a correspondent for TIME & LIFE, he reported the last bitter triumphs of Communism in China, covered guerrilla warfare in Indo-China, went along on a Chinese Nationalist bombing raid from Formosa to Shanghai. When war started in Korea, ex-Marine Fielder volunteered to cover it, left his wife and ten-month-old son behind in Hong Kong. He was aboard the light cruiser Juneau when it shelled Korea's east coast, and filed a notable report-"Last Train from Vladivostok" (TIME, July...
...Whampoa Military Academy, and later in Moscow. His original name was Kim Sung Chu. Reason for the change: in 1945 he rode into Korea with the Red army, whose commissars billed him for a few days as "the Korean hero, Kim II Sung." There had been an authentic guerrilla hero named Kim II Sung, who disappeared after the 1919 independence movement. When Koreans pointed this out, the Russians dropped the hero legend, but Kim kept the name. Measure of his success in Stalinizing North Korea: in the 1948 elections, 99.6% of the registered electorate voted for the "United Front" (Communist...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...