Korean War
eBook - ePub

Korean War

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Korean War

About this book

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. 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 two-hundred vets — including the Chinese—Hastings 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, Ridgway, and Bradley—and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781501131905
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia militar y marítima

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Map of Korea
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreword
  5. Prologue: Task Force Smith
  6. 1. Origins of a Tragedy
  7. 2. Invasion
  8. 3. The West’s Riposte
  9. 4. Walker’s War
  10. 5. Inchon
  11. 6. To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel
  12. 7. The Coming of the Chinese
  13. 8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir
  14. 9. The Winter of Crisis
  15. 10. Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur
  16. 11. The Struggle on the Imjin
  17. 12. The Stony Road
  18. 13. The Intelligence War
  19. 14. The Battle in the Air
  20. 15. The War on the Hills
  21. 16. The Prisoners
  22. 17. The Pursuit of Peace
  23. 18. Hindsight
  24. Chronology
  25. Appendix
  26. Photographs
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. About the Author
  29. Notes and References
  30. Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources
  31. Index
  32. Copyright

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