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Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean and Chinese Soldiers Hardcover - 2004

by Richard Peters; Xiaobing Li


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"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book

South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War.

Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War -- American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese -- this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.

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IT IS ONE of the more unfortunate and ironic events in history that Korea, a nation that prior to 1945 included the most homogeneous and united of all peoples, should become a nation divided.

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  • Title Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean and Chinese Soldiers
  • Author Richard Peters; Xiaobing Li
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 291
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kentucky, LEXINGTON, KY
  • Date January 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780813122939 / 0813122937
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.2 x 0.98 in (23.93 x 15.75 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Cultural Region: East Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003014586
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.904

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  • Booklist, 01/01/2004, Page 816
  • Choice, 10/01/2004, Page 347
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