Examines the political climate and military situation that led to the Korean War, and discusses the key people and events of the three-year conflict.
The author, a distinguished military historian, recounts the sequence of military events that formed the war and, based on personal accounts and interviews with hundreds of vets, vividly depicts combat action
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A revisionist account of the controversial war examines perspectives on both sides of the conflict while assessing its cultural contradictions and lasting influence, placing particular focus on the roles of McCarthyism and the media.
Caridi, R. The Korean War and American politics: the Republican Party as a case study (Philadelphia, 1969). ... Riggs, J. Congress and the conduct of the Korean War (PhD thesis, Purdue University, 1972). Titus, J. (ed.).
In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few short months, leading it into battle against the Chinese and North Korean forces, forcing them back over the 38th parallel and ”victory ...
"Lets readers experience the Korean War from multiple perspectives, allowing them to choose different paths through history"--
Tens of thousands of US soldiers and untold millions of Koreans died in this war the first major arena of the East-West conflict. This concise international history of the...
Despite the American tendency to bypass it, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was a watershed in American history.
In light of the recent declassification of state papers from Western, Soviet, and Chinese archives, this intriguing book presents a re-examination of the Korean War.
The Participants, the Tactics, and the Course of Conflict Arthur H. Mitchell ... Seeking to escape along the shoreline, Crosby Miller had repeated encounters with Chinese soldiers. Lying wounded in a hut, Miller met two Chinese soldiers ...