Eyewitness Korea: The Experience of British and American Soldiers in the Korean War 1950-1953, Hardcover - James Goulty

DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

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