Korean category: 538 books
The Coldest Winter
America and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his...
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by D. M. Giangreco
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Includes 10 photos illustrations]
The first 9 months of the Korean War saw U.S. Army field artillery units destroy or abandon their own guns on nearly a dozen occasions. North Korean and Chinese forces infiltrated thinly held American lines to ambush units on the move or assault battery positions...
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by Captain Bernard C. Nalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations.
This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines during the Korean War from Bunker Hill to the Hook.
The origin of this work lies in the continuing program to keep Marines,...
by James Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The Korean War is often referred to as the forgotten war. In his book, professor James N. Butcher relives his experiences as an infantryman with Fox Company of the 17th Infantry Regiment, during the final year of the Korean War (1952-1953). In a graphic portrayal of living conditions on the front,...
Bully Able Leader
The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War.
Officers in Flight Suits
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed virtually every major town and city...
Korea
Canada's Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The Korean War (1950-53) forms a little-known but exciting part of Canada's military history. The heroism and sacrifice of Canadians who fought in this conflict as part of the United Nations force has often been ignored. In this lively, anecdotal book, John Melady combines archival material and interviews...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A very heavy bomber and a sky giant during World War 2, at that time the B-29 was the most advanced combat aircraft in the world. By...
And the Wind Blew Cold
The Story of an American POW in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along...
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by William Y’Blood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes more than 20 photo illustrations
The fight for air superiority began the day the Korean War started and only ended with the armistice three years later. Once the shock of the North Koreans’ invasion wore off, it did not take long for the United States Air Force, assisted by other United...
North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the...
From the Imjin to the Hook
A National Service Gunner in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found...
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield
The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
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