The Korean War
by Max Hastings
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067166834X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671668341
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From back cover:
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, butter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interview with more than 200 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, Ridgeway, and Bradley--and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.
389 pages including notes and index.
Synopsis
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now 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 200 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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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1906
- Title
- The Korean War
- Author
- Max Hastings
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 067166834X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671668341
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988-10-15
- Pages
- 389
- Keywords
- American history, Korean War
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American; History - Korean War;
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