THE DIVINE WIND
Mar 17, 2022
3 minutes
fter the disaster on his force wrought by the kamikaze, the Khan ordered a third invasion almost immediately in a last-ditch attempt to crush the Japanese. “Kublai believed his advisers when they said that the Japanese were tough fighters but sure to be defeated, like little venomous snakes,” says historian Jonathan Clements. “There were plenty of people to blame for the disaster, so the possibility remained in his mind that the Japanese had
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