Korean War category: 284 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
When 1953 began, the Jamestown Line had become, in the words of Marine Corporal Robert Hall who fought there, "a messy, rambling series of ditches five to seven feet deep" that linked a succession of bunkers constructed of sandbags and timber and used for shelter or fighting. The trenches...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This volume describes the impact of the Korean War upon national security policies and programs. The Soviet Union's willingness to sanction overt aggression, in an area where Soviet security interests were only marginally involved, seemed to show that Moscow might indeed have a master plan for world...
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington...
Hilltop Doc
A Marine Corpsman Fighting Through the Mud and Blood of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War’s carnage and the best of its humanity. His gripping description brings to life the war between the Chinese army and the U.S. Marines as they battled to take the high ground. You will feel the anguish, the frustration and...
Name, Rank, and Serial Number
Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise...
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...
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...
Forgotten Warriors
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time. Assembled from the woefully understrength 1st Marine Division and 1st Marine Air Wing units, the Brigade shipped out only six...
A Morning in June
Defending Outpost Harry
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental...
by Gareth Hector, Mr Warren Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Built within a 180-day time limit in 1943, the F-80 Shooting Star first saw service in Italy in the final year of World War 2, and consequently was sent to bases in the US, Europe and the Far East after VJ Day. It was the latter groups based in Japan that initially bore the brunt of the early fighting...
Passing the Test
Combat in Korea, April-June 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
For U.S. and UN soldiers fighting the Korean War, the spring of 1951 was brutal. The troops faced a tough and determined foe under challenging conditions. The Chinese Spring Offensive of 1951 exemplified the hardships of the war, as the UN forces struggled with the Chinese troops over Line Kansas,...
Holding the Line
The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Naval and air power were crucial to the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. USS Leyte...
The Darkest Summer
Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War’s most decisive battles were fought and the Americans who fought them went—...
A Christmas Far from Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Mao's Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures, General...