Korean WarSimon and Schuster, 15/10/1988 - 391 من الصفحات 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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an | 15 |
WALKERS WAR | 76 |
5 INCHON | 99 |
MACARTHUR CROSSES THE Parallel | 115 |
THE COMING OF THE CHINESE | 128 |
THE ROAD FROM THE RESERVOIR | 147 |
THE WINTER OF CRISIS | 165 |
THE DISMISSAL OF MACARTHUR | 192 |
THE STONY ROAD | 228 |
THE INTELLIGENCE WAR | 243 |
THE WAR ON THE HILLS | 270 |
THE PRISONERS | 286 |
THE PURSUIT OF PEACE | 305 |
HINDSIGHT | 330 |
Chronology | 345 |
Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources | 361 |
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