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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 [...]
Dec
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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: [...]
Dec
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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 [...]
Dec
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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
Dec
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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: [...]
Dec
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GONE TO GRAVEYARDS-an epic novel of the Korean War BOOK TWO
GONE TO GRAVEYARDS-An Epic Novel of the Korean War has a immediate relevance as today, over a half-century after the Korean truce was signed, incredibly the daily headlines portend the ominous threat of North Korea’s nuclear ambition while UN troops still anxiously patrol the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th Parallel. Pundits have variously called the Korean War “a black hole of history” and “The Forgotten War.” Most of the meager legacy of written history about the so-called “ForgottenSale Price: Read [...]
Dec
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Hearts of Iron: The Epic Struggle of the 1st Marine Division, Flame Tank Platoon, Korean War, 1950-1953
HEARTS OF IRON is the epic true story of a little-known but significant part of the Korean War, told by the brave men of the Flame Platoon, First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division. This book shares the honest, personal accounts of combat, fear, death, and survival of these comrades of the Forgotten War, most of whom were not even trained to be Flame Tankers yet fought with weapons possessing some of the most lethal fire ability of any rolling armament [...]
Dec
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The Korean War: The Story and Photographs (America Goes to War)
This compelling photographic history examines the war in its entirety, from its causes and protagonists to the strategies, weapons and battles. Goldstein and Maihafer have collected more than 450 vivid photographs, many never before seen by the general public. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean conflict, The Korean War remembers the experience of the American fighting man in “the forgottenSale Price: Read More
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The Korean War (Essential Histories)
The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during [...]
