The Korean War
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Word Count
97,750 words, Guess
Page Count
391 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18349554M
- ISBN-100671528238
- OCLC Control Number16130754
- OCLC Control Numberkoreanwar00hast_636
- Library of Congress Control Number87016547
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- Goodreads4035676
- LibraryThing65252
Classifications
- DDC951.9/042
- LCCDS918 .H34 1987
Description
Chronicles the Korean War with over 200 interviews of veterans, including the Chinese.
First Sentence
Seldom in the course of history has a nation been so rapidly propelled from obscurity to a central place in the world's affairs as Korea.
Excerpt
Seldom in the course of history has a nation been so rapidly propelled from obscurity to a central place in the world's affairs as Korea.
Description
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 accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets - including the Chinese - Hasting follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home - the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Bradley - and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.
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