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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....
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The Coldest Winter: Book and DVD Special
by David Halberstam and James Lester 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...
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Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
by Martin Russ Synopsis "Breakout" is the riveting saga of one of the most heroic campaigns in American military history, masterfully told by the author of "The Last Parallel." It is the gripping story of the 1950 campaign of American Marines as they faced sudden death in the...
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Believed to Be Alive (Bluejacket Books)
by John W., Jr. Thornton Synopsis On March 31, 1951, a young Navy helicopter pilot, Lt.(jg) John W. Thornton volunteered for a dangerous mission to rescue a key intelligence unit trapped on a high ridge behind enemy lines in Korea. Although he wrecked his craft while attempting to land...
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The Korean War
by Max Hastings Publisher Comments It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the...
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The Korean War (Da Capo Paperback)
by Matthew B Ridgway Publisher Comments In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United...
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Korean War Almanac (Almanacs of American Wars)
by Paul M Edwards Synopsis The Korean War was the first "hot war" of the Cold War, the first "police action" undertaken by the United States under the aegis of the United Nations, and the first war to be over-shadowed by the menace of nuclear conflagration. It has been called...
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Pork Chop Hill
by S L A Marshall Synopsis Renowned military historian S.L.A. Marshall was in Korea in 1953, deep in enemy territory when Pork Chop Hill was overrun with Red Chinese troops. A handful of U.S. GIs on the frontline fought the Chinese and won. His classic account of the battle is "a...
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The Run-Up to the Punch Bowl
by John Nolan Publisher Comments The noted author and literary scholar, Samuel Hynes, has remarked that there has been no great book on the Korean War, a significant gap in American military letters. It may be hoped that this account will help to meet at least part of that challenge...
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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 (Modern War Studies)
by Conrad C. Crane Synopsis Crane (history, the US Military Academy) analyzes the successes and failures of the air force in Korea. He exposes the tensions and rivalries between services, showing that emphasis on strategic bombing came at the expense of air support for ground...
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An American Rabbi in Korea: A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War (Judaic Studies Series)
by Milton J Rosen Publisher Comments During the height of the Korean conflict, 1950-51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles for Der Morgen Zhornal, a Yiddish daily in New York, documenting his wartime experiences as well as those of the servicemen under...
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Remembering Korea 1950: A Boy Soldier's Story
by H. K. Shin Synopsis 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....
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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...
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Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea
by Oscar E Gilbert Publisher Comments In this follow up to his enormously successful 'Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific', the author presents an equally exhaustive and detailed account of the little known Marine tank engagements in Korea....
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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....
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Flame Dragons of the Korean War
by Jerry Ravino Synopsis This book is the result of collaboration by Jerry Ravino and Jack Carty, veterans of the Korean War with the Flame Platoon, Headquarters Company, First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division, who did not meet until almost 50 years after what went down in...
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Campaign #162: Inch'on 1950: The Last Great Amphibious Assault
by Gordon L Rottman Synopsis Inch'on was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean theater, as well as being the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducted in the history of warfare. The odds were stacked against the US troops, with virtually no time for...
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Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by Stephen Van Evera Synopsis Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate false optimism about the likely outcome of a war, a fast-strike advantage, fluctuation in the relative power of states, circumstances that allow nations to parlay one conquest...
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Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers
by Richard Peters Synopsis "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...
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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...
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