Description: Featuring an introduction by award-winning CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, this important volume chronicles the major battles of the twentieth-century. Organized chronologically, it begins with the Anglo-Boer War and ends with the Balkan War, with chapters focusing on World War I, World War II, The Korean War, Vietnam, and the Gulf War as well as the conflicts that may have faded a bit from recent memory, but were no less significant. Throughout the book, dramatic photographs in both color and [...]
Tag Archives: Korean War
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Medal of Honor DVD
Description: The Medal of Honor is awarded for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.” This 6-part documentary chronicles the highest award given to military personnel for their extreme bravery, valor and harrowing sacrifices. Covering the Civil War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, learn about the most courageous acts performed by the people who [...]
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Voices Almost Lost: Korea The Forgotten War
When Vickie Spring promised her dad who had served in both WWII and the Korean War, that she would one day write his story and the others with whom he served, she never imagined the challenges that lay ahead of her. After months of searching, thirteen men were found that had fought in Korea alongside her dad. Vickie has compiled these brave and noble men’s personal accounts of their experiences during the Korean War. Their stories are heartfelt and compelling. [...]
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The Coldest Winter Book (Paperback)
Description: The paperback The Coldest Winter book is a work ten years in the making. David Halberstam, author of the bestselling The Best and the Brightest, combines meticulous reporting with thrilling storytelling in his richly written and highly informative look at the Korean War. Among Korean War books, Halberstam’s work may be the definitive word. The paperback The Coldest Winter book is by David Halberstam, author of the magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest, which was the defining [...]
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Korean War Atrocities
Hearing before the Subcommittee on Korean WarSale Price: Read More
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Voices from the Korean War: Personal Accounts of Those Who Served
Voices from the Korean War presents a collection of first-person accounts of those who served in the Korean War. The Korean War is often dubbed the “Forgotten War,” although more than 36,000 soldiers died in this three-year conflict. In Voices from the Korean War, author Douglas Rice makes certain the men who served are not forgotten as he shares first-person accounts from seventy-nine soldiers who fought in the war from June of 1950 through July of 1953. Voices from the [...]
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Operation Broken Reed: Truman’s Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III
At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence – gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission’s findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man — sworn to secrecy for a half-century—survived Operation Broken Reed. Arthur Boyd recalls his role as cryptographer on a team of Army Rangers, Navy Frogmen, Air Force officers, and CIA operatives thatSale Price: [...]
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Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War
It was 1950, a brutally cold November in North Korea, and the war seemed all but over. And then a force of nearly 70,000 Chinese “volunteers” crossed the Yalu River, encircling the 30,000 United Nations troops at the Chosin Reservoir. The epic story of what followed–one of the iconic battles in Marine history–is told for the first time in gut-level detail in this book. From the point of view of the men in the foxholes and tanks, outposts and command [...]
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Bully Able Leader: The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War
Action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War What it was like to fly the F-80 Shooting Star against MiGs and ground targets Author flew 112 combat missions in five major campaigns in 1950-51 “Bully Able Leader” was the author’s radio callSale Price: Read More
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I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950-53
While current events have focused the public’s attention on Korea once again, many veterans of the conflict that occurred there half a century ago worry that their time spent fighting in this “Forgotten War” will not be remembered or understood unless their story is told. Award-winning nonfiction author Linda Granfield has collected the personal accounts of thirty-two men and women who served with the U.S. and Canadian forces in Korea during the years 1950–53 and has written her ownSale Price: [...]
