The Korean War: A History, Paperback

Reducere. Explore how the Korean War Started, the Aftermath and the Events in Between The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the Un...

Reducere. Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents t...

A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and dar...

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle--not over land but over human subject...

A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings

Evidence indicating that the U.S. employed germ weapons in the Korean War and a lively but scholarly skewering of official denials.

Reducere. Detailed account of the 5th Regimental Combat Team in the Koren War. Includes a comprehensive list of 5th RCT unit casualties and Korean Ex-Prisone...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Yalu River Boys is the true story of the forgotten men from the Forgotten War. Follow a B-29 bomber crew as it battles Russian MiG-1...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neo...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Korea, then keep reading...The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time ...

Reducere. Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country fro...

Reducere. The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gri...

Reducere. "Hardly War, " Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a pro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted...

After the Second World War, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again ...

Reducere. Featuring hundreds of photos from the national archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Patton remains the definitive developme...

Reducere. This evocative memoir of food and family history richly braids Korean meals, memories of a mother fighting racism and the onset of schizophrenia, a...

Reducere. Description"This story of the unlikely meeting of two vulnerable women is a beautifully woven page turner. The battle-weary woman and the pin-up gi...

The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat...

Reducere. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and...

Reducere. To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses...

Reducere. In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas ...

The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became comm...

Reducere. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the r...

DescriptionThis gripping new study details the crisis point of the Korean War: the UN advance across into North Korea and the following Chinese off...

Lee Jung Seob (Seop) was born in 1956 to a rich family in the now North Korea region of Pyeongwon, South Pyeongan Province. He studied in Pyeongyan...

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

Reducere. Carrying heavy ammo to soldiers all by herself, Sergeant Reckless helped her fellow marines survive dangerous Korean War battles. By risking her li...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerry Van TonderWhen the world held its breath ... It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75...

Reducere. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What ...

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE ``I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shang...

DescriptionThis true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women's livesGrass is a powerful antiwar graphic ...

In World War II, the author's ship the USS Albuquerque PF-7 endured a fourteen month tour of duty in the Bering Sea performing unending patrols, es...

Reducere. Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, ...

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of East Asia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: History of China: A Cap...

Reducere. The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independen...

Nine armies of 27 divisions of the Communist Chinese People's Volunteer Army, numbering 250, 000 troops, launch a night attack along a 40-mile fron...

Description"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt. Tonig...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don OberdorferAuthor: Robert CarlinAn acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North ...

Titled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicentre of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the Korean Penin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giulio DouhetTranslator: Dino FerrariThis reprint of the 1942 English translation of Douhet's works, while titled "Command ...

DescriptionIn almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering d...

Now available in paperback, this is the gripping story of Task Force 77, the US Navy carrier commitment to the Korean War that was vital to the suc...

JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of ...

Reducere. Since the Korean War ended in 1953, several books and articles have been published about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russ...

For centuries war has come with a hefty price, costing many their lives or freedom. Here, Terry Treadwell explores true stories of daring escapes a...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I. He played a key role in the...

Reducere. Any history of California is incomplete without the story of this dynamic woman who was one of the state's first notable pioneer figures. Jessie Be...

Reducere. In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, who...

Reducere. History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of wid...

Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...

Reducere. DescriptionExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and un...

Reducere. Developed soon after World War II, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. The Be...

Reducere. The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T. R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of ...

Reducere. "A captivating memoir of a courageous survivor" (Publishers Weekly) and "a window onto the panorama of modern Korean history" (St. Petersburg Times...

Reducere. In the wake of the Jacobite Rebellions, companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from royal clans to protect the populace, deter cattle ste...

For some Americans, when they think of the Republic of Korea (popularly called South Korea), they think of the Korean War fought so long ago. Many ...

Featuring over a thousand photos from the National Archives, diagrams, and detailed specifications, Hunnicutt's Half-Track remains the definitive d...

Reducere. The Browning Automatic Rifle (known as the "BAR") M1918 was designed in 1917 by John Browning for the U.S. Expeditionary Corps in Europe. The M1918...

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

Reducere. DescriptionScarlet to Green details the 'boom and bust' cycles of the Canadian Army's intelligence organization from its inception in 1903 to 1963,...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispers...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to...

After China's November 1950 intervention in the war and the subsequent battle of the Chosin Reservoir, UN forces faced a new onslaught in the sprin...

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

DescriptionThrough historic photos, this volume traces the development, production and deployment of this iconic piece of military equipment from t...

Reducere. ``What would you want if you could have any wish?`` asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his i...

Reducere. Ha Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW cam...