War in Korea
eBook - ePub

War in Korea

The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent

  1. 145 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

War in Korea

The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent

About this book

Not since Ernie Pyle have the American people taken any reporter to their hearts as they have Marguerite Higgins—the photogenic young war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. This brilliant woman reporter, greatly admired by the fighting men, has dodged bullets with troops on the line, has asked neither favor nor privilege for herself, and has been commended publicly for bravery in helping grievously wounded men under fire. This is her up-front, personal report of the human side of the war.With the discerning eye of the expert reporter and the sympathy of a woman living through the agony of her countrymen, Miss Higgins tells the whole story of the bitter Korean campaign: young, green troops maturing in battle, Communist bullets kicking over the coffeepot at breakfast, the initial inadequacy of American arms, and the terrible price in men we are paying for unpreparedness.Miss Higgins also sketches brilliant thumbnail portraits of Generals MacArthur Walker, and Dean, and of many line and staff officers as well as GIs. In WAR IN KOREA she has written a tremendously compelling book that calls a spade a spade as it reveals the hell and heroism of an ordeal which compares to Valley Forge in the annals of American fighting men.Richly illustrated throughout with photographs by Carl Mydans of Life magazine and others.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. FOREWORD
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. CHAPTER 1-JOURNEY INTO WAR
  7. CHAPTER 2-THE FIRST RETREAT
  8. CHAPTER 3-PANIC
  9. CHAPTER 4-THE FIRST SKIRMISH
  10. CHAPTER 5-“HOW FAST CAN AN ARMY RETREAT?”
  11. CHAPTER 6-“THE EARLY DAYS”
  12. CHAPTER 7-NEWSMAN HIGGINS
  13. CHAPTER 8-“STAND OR DIE”
  14. CHAPTER 9-THE GREAT GAMBLE AT INCHON
  15. CHAPTER 10-OUR SOUTH KOREAN ALLIES
  16. CHAPTER 11-THE CHINESE INTERVENTION
  17. CHAPTER 12-EPIC MARINE “ADVANCE TO THE REAR”
  18. CHAPTER 13-THE ENEMY
  19. CHAPTER 14-THE PROSPECT IS WAR
  20. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER