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A Cold Days in Hell
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 32.00Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison... more...
Rethinking the Korean War
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 30.95Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland... more...
A Short History of the Korean War
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury's survey of "the half war" takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the Pusan perimeter crisis, MacArthur's master stroke at Inchon and the intervention by Chinese forces that November.... more...
A Morning in June
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental advantages that could be translated into... more...
Give Me Tomorrow
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 16.00An epic story of a legendary Marine company?s valor and sacrifice in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian more...
Truman, MacArthur and the Korean War
Enigma Books 2011; US$ 19.00The best concise military history of the first year of the Korean War and the Truman-MacArthur crisis. more...
The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 295.00A multidimensional, multidisciplinary work on one of the least understood but most important conflicts in modern history. more...
The Naval Air War in Korea
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 35.00“In The Naval Air War in Korea , Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feel- ing, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, in- cluding the highly significant facets of the transition from piston to jet-propelled combat aircraft.”—Norman Polmar, author of Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the... more...
Operation Broken Reed
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 26.95At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence - gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission?s findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man ? sworn to secrecy for a half-century?survived Operation... more...









