Korean category: 538 books
I Love to Sleep in My Own Bed
Korean English Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Bilingual Korean English children's Book. Perfect for kids learning English or Korean as their second language. This fun children's picture book follows the story of cute little bunny, Jimmy. He lives with his family in a small, nice house in the forest. The problem is that Jimmy doesn't want to sleep...
The Battle for Pusan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.”
–From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr., USAF (Ret.), author of God Is My Co-Pilot
The rapid-fire...
Holding the Line
The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Naval and air power were crucial to the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. USS Leyte...
The Last Stand of Fox Company
A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into...
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington...
Rangers in Korea
The War the World Didn't Want to Remember, Fought by the Men the World Will Never Forget
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .
In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite band who volunteered for action...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Summary ofThe General vs. the PresidentFrom H.W. BrandsMacArthur and TrumanAt the Brink of Nuclear WarBy Summary StationTruman relieving General Douglas MacArthur caused a bit of an uproar amongst the American public. His motives were to limit the conflict in Korea, resulting in his...
Hilltop Doc
A Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War’s carnage and the best of its humanity. His gripping description brings to life the war between the Chinese army and the U.S. Marines as they battled to take the high ground. You will feel the anguish, the frustration and...
Name, Rank, and Serial Number
Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
ChosinHeroic Ordeal of the Korean WarEric HammelTold from the point of view of the men in the foxholes and tanks, outposts, and command posts, Eric Hammels Chosin is the definitive account of the epic retreat under fire of the 1st Marine Division from the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. The author...
Triumph at Kapyong
Canada’s Pivotal Battle in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Afghanistan is not Canada’s first war in Asia. We’ve been there before, a half century ago … in Korea. And it was a meat grinder, scarcely remembered now … a war in which on one hilltop, on one April night, freshly-minted Canadians soldiers made a desperate stand that prevented catastrophe....
The Darkest Summer
Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
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 War’s most decisive battles were fought and the Americans who fought them went—...
by Colonel Robert O. Brunson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Inchon Landing’s success required a commander like General MacArthur who could gain the cooperation and coordination of the Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force commanders, despite their belief that the Inchon Landing operation was very nearly impossible. Only these commanders, with their men,...
A Christmas Far from Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Mao's Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures, General...