Korean War category: 284 books

The sacrifice of the "Glorious Glosters" in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved greater renown in those nations than any other military action since World War II. This book is the first to compare in depth...

This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to the propeller-driven aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Canadian Forces in the post-WWII piston-era. The handbooks in this series include a general description...

This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century – the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these...

Brassey's presents the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the twenty-nine year-old man who became South Korea's first four-star general. With photographs and a foreword by the commanders of U.S. forces in the war, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Gen. James A. Van Fleet, FROM PUSAN TO PANMUNJON brings an unprecedented perspective to a cataclysmic war.

Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the...

Nan-hee Park left Japan in 1939 to join her fianc, Won-sup Shim, who lived in a port city on the East Coast of Korea, which was not yet divided into North and South. As she was preparing to leave, her parents shared a premonition: Shed face tough times in her homeland. But it was just a vague,...

MCALISTER’S WAY FREE Weekly Serialisation Volume 7 Chapters 12 — 13 A Young Adult Action and Adventure Story for Baby Boomers Chapter 12 The first time I flew to New Guinea as a Hercules C-130 co-pilot I was pretty excited, anticipating the spectacular views. It was pouring with...

“The story of Sergeant Major Maurice Jacques is the story of a true warrior. With close to fifty months’ combat in Korea and Vietnam, he’s one of that rare breed, men who have looked the Devil in the eye—for a long time—and never blinked!”**—**LtCol. Oliver North, USMC (Ret.) COMBAT...

In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes,...

Right in the middle of the movie, a group of kamikazes flew over and one of them landed on the USS Randolphthis was our first touch of war - Betty Gallagher We were about five hundred miles from England when we got attacked. We knew we werent going to make it. We got an anti-aircraft shell...

Introduction /The GARRYOWEN /The Author /Legacy of the 7th Cavalry/ Genera George A Custer/ From the Commanders/ The Commanders/ ADVANCE TO THE REAR/ COUNTERATTACK/ CHINESE SPRING OFFENSIVE/ IRON TRIANGLE/ Campaigns/ Medal of Honor/ Charts/ Extracts/ Esprit de Corps to the GARRYOWEN/ OCCUPATION DUTY...

When Mina’s father dies, she returns to Korea to visit a family she barely knows, desperately looking for some answers. But her mother is reluctant to discuss the past, especially the war, or the reasons that Mina was sent so far away as a child, to America. Her younger sister seems unable to grow...

How can two countries sharing the same second names be so different from each other? Dig a bit further into the two Korea’s history to understand why these geographic brothers are separated by differences. Make learning fun and interesting by using picture books that feature age-appropriate lessons. Go ahead and grab a copy today!

MCALISTER’S WAY - FREE Weekly Serialisation Volume 05 Chapters 8 & 9 A Young Adult Action and Adventure Story for Baby Boomers By now you’ve probably got the idea. I add a few thoughts about each chapter as we go along. Chapter 8 A couple of years before Cyclone Tracy (1974) I flew...