Korean War category: 284 books
Harry S. Truman
The Coming of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Harry S. Truman presided over one of the most challenging times in American history—the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Thrust into the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office, Truman oversaw the transition to a new, post-war world in which the United States wielded...
The Unknown Battle to Defend the Demilitarized Zone Against North Korea During the Cold War
We Were Soldiers Too, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
WINNER! MILITARY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR. Book 3 of the Historical Documentary Series on the Cold War. Order Now!
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separates North and South Korea and is the most defended border in the world
Both sides have dug their heels in and fortified the DMZ with defensive...
Macarthur's War
The Flawed Genius Who Challenged The American
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
General Douglas MacArthur was highly skilled and world famous as a military commander. Under his leadership after World War II, Japan was rebuilt into a democratic ally. But during the Korean War, in defiance of President Harry S. Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he pushed for an aggressive confrontation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Submarine Commander
A Story of World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a...
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,...
![Cover of Outpost War: U.S. Marines From The Nevada Battles To The Armistice [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/november/300x300/9781786256065-MXac_300x.jpg)
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 that United States Marines played in the hard fighting along the outpost line from 1953 through to the end of the war.
The term “Battles of the Outposts”...
![Cover of Stalemate: U.S. Marines From Bunker Hill To The Hook [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/november/300x300/9781786256072-vFZF_300x.jpg)
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,...
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...
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,...
by Maj. Ward M. Millar
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
U.S. Major Ward M. Millar was the third and last of three Air Force pilots captured during the Korean War to make his escape from the Communists. This is his story, first published in 1955, simply told, and one of stubborn and single-minded determination. Parachuting down in enemy territory, with...