The Korean War

The Korean War - Paperback

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The Korean War - Paperback

The Korean War - Paperback

by Max Hastings
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780671668341
Author Max Hastings
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 1988
LanguageENG- English
Pages391
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph. He has received numerous British Press Awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He lives outside London.

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