Stand of Knights: A Novel of the China-Taiwan War

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Wars dominate the chronologies of all nations and many millions of participants, but rarely does a conflict transcend the passions of the immediate participants and invade the consciousness of people everywhere. Rarer still are the primary sources of such a conflict, the words of the participants. Rarest of all is a manuscript written without the confounding gauze of time or the deliberate artifice of a self-interested memoirist. Sergeant Clay McCormick wrote just such a manuscript and handed it to me within hours of the final act of the Battle of Taipei. I am presenting his work here for the first time.

The Battle of Taipei and the history of the Knights of Taiwan stand too fresh in our memory for detached, dry, historical treatment. McCormick’s recounting does not pretend to be such an account. Instead, McCormick takes us behind the scenes, explaining how he and the other Knights experienced the events that most of the rest of the world had to follow through news stories and videos posted to YouTube.

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