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United States Marine Corps by John Selby Publisher Comments This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organization of the United States Marine Corps, from 1775, through their service in World Wars I and II, through to Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1955-1975). Uniforms are shown in full illustrated... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Campaigns and Commanders #31: Into the Breach at Pusan: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War by Kenneth W. Estes Publisher Comments In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade’s actions... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Staff Pick In researching the career of David Halberstam for our Out of the Book project, I came across a description of the author by Doris Kearns Goodwin that gets to the heart of Halberstam's masterful approach: "A gifted storyteller," she called him. "He told... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea by James Brady Publisher Comments America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the fiftieth anniversary of this devastating conflict, James Brady tells the story of his life as a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--And the Marines--From Extinction by Bill Sloan Publisher Comments The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean Wars most decisive battles were... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat by Tom Drury Synopsis This fast-paced and gripping account describes the harrowing story of the 10,000 U.S. Marines who were surrounded by 100,000 Chinese soldiers during the Korean War. With dozens of firsthand interviews and thrilling narration, this book does justice to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Bugles, No Drums: An Oral History of the Korean War by Rudy Tomedi Publisher Comments "A vivid description of the Korean War as seen through the eyes of those who fought there. . . . Readers will find it easy to project themselves into the action, to be at the Pusan perimeter, on the ground at the Yalu River, at Pork Chop Hill, at... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Defining Moments: The Korean War (Defining Moments) by Leif A. Gruenberg Publisher Comments Providing more than merely a military history of the Korean War, this record offers a complete assessment of the conflict in both factual and anecdotal formats. Following a brief history of Korea, this detailed book chronicles the events leading to the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Publisher Comments David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Selling the Korean War: How the Truman Administration Sold America's First "Limited" War by Steven Casey Publisher Comments The Korean War occupies a unique place in American history and foreign policy. Because it followed closely after World War II and ushered in a new era of military action as the first hot conflict of the cold war, the Korean War was marketed as an... (read more) Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey Publisher Comments The Korean War occupies a unique place in American history and foreign policy. Because it followed closely after World War II and ushered in a new era of military action as the first hot conflict of the cold war, the Korean War was marketed as an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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From the Hudson to the Yalu: West Point '49 in the Korean War by Harry James Maihafer Publisher Comments They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and national complacency. A year later these young officers were plunged into a cruel and unexpected war and... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $26.18 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 (Modern War Studies) by Conrad C. Crane Publisher Comments The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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Honor and Fidelity by Gilberto N. Villahermosa Publisher Comments Formed at the turn of the nineteenth century to protect America's strategic interests in the Caribbean, the 65th Infantry consisted of Puerto Rican soldiers and sergeants and American and Puerto Rican officers. Although in existence for almost fifty... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $7.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Remembering Korea 1950 (01 Edition) by H.k. Shin Publisher Comments Today, H. K. Shin is an internationally respected chemist, but in this stirring memoir, he carries us back to Korea during a pivotal time in his homeland's history from his perspective as a 16-year-old South Korean soldier.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War: June-December 1950 by Patrick C Roe Publisher Comments One June 25, 1950, a massive surprise North Korean invasion sent Allied forces reeling back to a last-ditch defensive perimeter around the far-southern port city Pusan.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War by Elizabeth A. Stanley Publisher Comments Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to... (read more) Your price: $60.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Voices From the Korean War : Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers (04 Edition) by Richard Peters Publisher Comments "In three days the number of so-called ?volunteers? reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place."?from the book South Korean... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War by Eugene Frankl Clark Publisher Comments In 2000, as historian Thomas Fleming prepared an article about a crucial but little-known, covert mission of the Korean War, led by a thirty-nine-year-old naval lieutenant named Eugene Clark, Clark's widow noted that her husband had written up his own... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Under Army Orders: The Army National Guard during the Korean War by William M. Donnelly Publisher Comments WILLIAM M. DONNELLY, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., received his Ph.D. in history at Ohio State University.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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