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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat by Robert Drury Publisher Comments November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Special Offer Buy the set! Order The Coldest Winter now and receive the acclaimed 35-minute documentary about David Halberstam's last great effort. Starring Joan Didion, Bob Woodward, Robert Caro, Anna Quindlen, and Neil Sheehan.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coldest Winter (Book and DVD Set) 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 $26.94 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Softcvr W/Comp Media
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat by Bob Drury Publisher Comments November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his ten thousand First Division marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by one hundred thousand... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War by Richard C. Kirkland Synopsis Inspiring true account of Korean War helicopter pilot who helped pioneer battlefield airlift rescue.... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - 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 One of the darkest periods in American military history began on June 25, 1950, when hordes of North Korean troops stormed across the 38th Parallel into South Korea. The Communists' blitzkrieg-style invasion came less than five years after the end of... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero by Stanley Weintraub Publisher Comments Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history. His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more "MacArthur's War" -- and it remains one of our most brutal and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.65 Used - Hardcover
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The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea by James Brady Publisher Comments Praise for The Coldest War: "War reporting at its best - a graphic depiction, in all its horror, of the war we've almost forgotten... Jim Brady has used his finely honed reportorial skills to record his own front-line experiences in the Korean War... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns to North Korea by James Brady Publisher Comments Praise for James Brady: The Coldest War: "His story reads like a novel, but it is war reporting at its best--a graphic depiction, in all its horrors, of the war we've almost forgotten."--Walter Cronkite"Mr. Brady has written a superb personal... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography by Keith D. Mcfarland Synopsis The Korean War is the most comprehensive and detailed bibliography compiled to date on the American involvement in The Forgotten War. In this revised and expanded second edition, Keith D. McFarland's clearly written annotations provide concise... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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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) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 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 This first-hand account of a crucial, but little-known, covert mission of the Korean War offers a revealing and remarkable story of wartime courage-from the very man who led the mission. According to his colleagues, Commander Eugene Franklin Clark had... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot Shots: An Oral History of Air Force Combat Pilots of the Korean War by Jennie E Chancey Publisher Comments Known as the "Forgotten War," the Korean War heralded a new era of warfare--one where countries from around the world struggled over the fate of a relatively small peninsula jutting into the Sea of Japan. Between 1950 and 1953, more than fifty thousand... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950-1951 by Edward L. Posey Publisher Comments The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The company's life span covered ten months, from selection and training through a seven-month combat deployment in Korea... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History by T R Fehrenbach Synopsis Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Battle for Pusan: The Korean War Memoir of a Field Artilleryman by Addison Terry Publisher Comments His memoir of these perilous times makes for exciting reading, replete with the drama and sacrifice of men in combat.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $22.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns to North Korea by James Brady Publisher Comments “This powerful narrative is an endearing piece of warrior’s nostalgia, written with the accustomed skill by a seasoned writer.” ---Publishers Weekly “Graceful, even elegant, and always eloquent tribute to men at arms in a war that,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History by William Stueck Publisher Comments A new Diplomatic and Strategic History.... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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