The Taiwan Story Industrialisation & industrial history Featuring many of the most

Featuring many of the most recognisable characters and episodes in history

In his private life

he was the first British officer to escape from Colditz and using the code name 'Saturday' became a key figure in the IS9 escape and evasion organisation which spirited hundreds of Allied airmen and soldiers out of Occupied Europe

Peckham traces a shadow history of fear

The Taiwan Story Industrialisation & industrial history Featuring many of the mostWhen the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 two Chinas were born. Mao's communists won and took China's Mainland; Chiang Kai shek's nationalists fled to the island Taiwan. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy, has a successful economy underpinned by a single company producing 85% of the world's semiconductors: the beating heart of the world economy