Korean category: 538 books
by Eugene Franklin Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
“A classic first-person account of heroism, resolve, and ultimate triumph that will touch every American.”—Stephen Coonts
Retrieved from a safe-deposit box, this stunning first-hand account of a crucial, but little-known covert mission of the Korean War offers an honest, revealing, and...
War in Korea
The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Not since Ernie Pyle have the American people taken any reporter to their hearts as they have Marguerite Higgins—the photogenic young war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. This brilliant woman reporter, greatly admired by the fighting men, has dodged bullets with troops on the line,...
Striking Back
Combat in Korea, March-April 1951
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Striking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring of the war's first year. By the beginning of March, UN forces shifted strategic focus from defense to offense....
by Curt Anders
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A story of ground combat, as viewed from the level of combat command, The Price of Courage is written—as it should be—by a man who has himself led infantry forces in battle during the Korean War, where combat reduced itself daily to the awful task of getting one man at a time around one rock at...
by Lt. Duane Thorin
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Lt. Duane Thorin was a Navy helicopter pilot, who rescued many Americans before he himself was captured in 1952 and held as a prisoner of war by North Korea until his release in August, 1953.
This book, first published in 1956, is a fictional account of men in Korean POW camps, based on Lt. Thorin’s own experiences, as well as those of other prisoners of war in North Korea.
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
In June 1940, the U.S. Coast Guard set out to survey the coast of Greenland, the largest island in the world--and the coldest. A year and a half before the country entered the Second World War, the United States was looking for a place to put an airfield that would serve as a bridge to Europe. (For...
George-3-7th Marines
A Brief Glimpse Through Time of a Group of Young Marines
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In the four years of the Korean War, America lost almost fifty-four thousand men, roughly the same number who lost their lives in Vietnam, yet this war has almost disappeared into American history as the “Forgotten War.” George-3-7th Marines recounts the bloody Marine infantry campaigns fought in...
by Anthony J. Campigno
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
First published in 1958, A Marine Division in Nightmare Alley is a brief but gripping narrative of the author’s experiences as a young U.S. Marine during the Korean conflict. Beginning with his enlistment at age 17, his training at Camps LeJeune and Pendleton, to his landing at Pusan and subsequent...
MacArthur’s Air Force
American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command...
The War Came Home with Him
A Daughter’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
During his years as a POW in North Korea, “Doc” Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. Men who refused to eat starved; his children would clean their plates. Men who were weak died; his children would develop character. They would also learn to fear...
To Die Among Strangers
The Naval Air War in Korea a Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
To die Among Strangers is a love story set against the background of the Korean War, which lasted from June 1950 until July 1953. Robert Bruce piloted an F9F Panther Jet, and saw action from the wars beginning until its end. Court martialed for refusing to obey orders from his squadron commander placed his freedom, indeed his very life, in danger.
Grown Gray in War
From Iwo Jima to the Chosin Reservoir to the Tet Offensive, the Autobiography of a True Marine Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
“Generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.”
—Gen. John A. Lejeune
Suddenly, from both sides of the road, came a steady stream of tracers...
Collection of Equivalent Proverbs in Five Languages
English, Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Proverbs are crystals of knowledge acquired from daily life and passed from generation to generation. The origin of these proverbs is usually not attributed to one specific person. It is interesting to note that equivalent proverbs exist in many languages, demonstrating the universal nature of humanity....
China's Battle for Korea
The 1951 Spring Offensive
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Between November 1950 and the end of fighting in June 1953, China launched six major offensives against UN forces in Korea. The most important of these began on April 22, 1951, and was the largest Communist military operation of the war. The UN forces put up a strong defense, prevented the capture...