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Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953

Door Robert Leckie

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#385409-WF1
Titel
Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953
Auteur
Leckie, Robert
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
 New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Jaar van uitgave
448
ISBN10
0306807165
ISBN13
9780306807169
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered grey boards, dust jacket, map on endpapers, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, map, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel (the arbitrary, militarily indefensible line of latitude separating the Communist North from the independent Republic of Korea) to unite the country by force. Three bloody, bitter years of fighting ensued during which the seesawing fortunes of this frustrating war thwarted North Korea's ambitions while treating the ill-equipped, overconfident UN peacekeeping forces, mostly Americans, no less harshly. Conflict examines the war in all its military, political, and human dimensions: the battles at Pusan Perimeter, at Inchon, at Chosin Reservoir, at Heartbreak Ridge; significant figures like Syngman Rhee, Kim Il Sung, Ridgway, MacArthur, and Truman; controversies like MacArthur's dismissal, the difficulties of P. O. W. exchanges, and... (Lees verder) charges of brainwashing and germ warfare; as well as penetrating analyses of the performance of the American soldier, and the war's effect on the U. S. military and our national psyche. As such, Conflict stands as an unsurpassed, vivid contribution to history.
Pagina's
496
Conditie
Goed — Tears in dust jacket repaired with tape, edges dust jacket worn, top cut foxed.
Prijs
€ 20,00

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