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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

by Blaine Harden
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015

From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands In The Great Leader and the Fighter...
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MASH

An Army Surgeon in Korea

by Otto F. Apel M.D., Pat Apel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001

When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon...
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by Msgr Father Arthur Tonne
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017

Emil Joseph Kapaun (1916–1951) was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II, then served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where...
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コンパクト 日中韓 ミニ辞典 (Compact Japanese-Chinese-Korean Dictionary)

試験/ビジネス/日常生活に必要な中国語と韓国語 (Study Chinese and Korean words for test, business, and travel anywhere with a smartphone)

by Core Voca
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

[この本の特長] スマホ等でいつ、何処でも気軽に中国語と韓国語を勉強: スマホ等で中国語と韓国語をいつ、何処でも気軽に勉強出来るようにコンパクトに編集した。 日本語で中国語と韓国語を同時に検索/学習: 日本語の見出語をかなの五十音順に配列し、対応する中国語と韓国語の語彙を楽に検索/学習できるようにした。 ピンインで中国語の発音を表記: 標準中国語をより正確に発音できるように公定のローマ字発音表記であるピンイン(併音:pinyin)で発音を表した。 簡体字と繁体字を併記: 一般的に幅広く使われている標準中国語の簡体字と共に繁体字を併記し、効率的な語彙学習ができるよう心掛けた。 ローマ字で韓国語の発音を表記: 書かれている通りに発音しないかなり多くの韓国語をより正確に発音できるようにローマ字で発音を表した。 *...
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On Hallowed Ground

The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill

by Bill McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

“Brilliantly reveals the extraordinary courage of those who fought the final, bitter, bloody, costly days of the Korean War” (Gen. Jack I. Gregory, USAF Ret.). By the summer of 1953, the Korean War had long since reached a stalemate. As peace negotiations dragged on, units of the US 7th...
Cover of Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines At The Changjin Reservoir [Illustrated Edition]
by Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons
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 in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. The race to the Yalu was on. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon...
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MASH Angels: Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War

Tales of an Air-Evac Helicopter Pilot in the Korean War

by Richard C. Kirkland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying.
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by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

The first virtually all-jet war, the conflict in Korea saw F-86 Sabres of the USAF take on MiG-15s of the North Korean and Chinese air forces. Although the Allied pilots were initially taken aback by the ability of the communist fighter in combat, sound training and skilful leadership soon enabled...
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by Stephen F. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

More than 30,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953 and more than 3,000 died, with over 1,000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were 18-19 year...
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by Major Remco van Ingen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This monograph addresses operational art during a specific period of the Korean War. Both General Walton Walker and General Douglas MacArthur developed operational approaches to unify Korea when the decision was made to cross the 38th parallel into North Korea. General MacArthur’s approach used...
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Dundurn Korean War Library Bundle

Fighting Words / Korea / Triumph at Kapyong / Deadlock in Korea / Cross-Border Warriors

by Fred Gaffen, Dan Bjarnason, Ted Barris
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

This ebook bundle contains five books that chronicle Canada's participation in the conflict that gripped the Korean peninsula from 1950–53 and resulted in two very different nations that remain at odds today. This bloody and traumatic face-off between capitalist and communist ideologies highlighted...
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by Max Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal...
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Truman, Congress, and Korea

The Politics of America's First Undeclared War

by Larry Blomstedt
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015

Three days after North Korean premier Kim Il Sung launched a massive military invasion of South Korea on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman responded, dispatching air and naval support to South Korea. Initially, Congress cheered his swift action; but, when China entered the war to aid North...
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Selling the Korean War

Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953

by Steven Casey
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how...
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