The Dragon Strikes - China & Korean War June - December 1950 - Patrick C Roe

With victory against the North Koreans almost within their grasp, the US and South Korea suddenly found themselves faced with battle-hardened forces of Red China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) . Although technologically disadvantaged, the PLA mounted a campaign of deception, misinformation, and misdirection that enabled them to surprise and bloodiliy repulse the allied forces back across the thirty-eighth parallel and beyond. What brought the Chinese into the Korean War? How did the PLA manage to achieve seemingly total surprise? How could a primitive force, such as the PLA, stand up against America's modern military might: this book provides answers to these questions and more as it illuminates this viftually unknown side of what has been dubbed "the forgotten war"

Written by a Korean War Vetran who served as an intelligence officer.