[PDF] Fifty Years After The Korean War eBook

Author : Andrew J. Birtle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
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ISBN : 9781519236241

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The Korean War was the first major armed clash between Free World and Communist forces, as the so-called Cold War turned hot. The half-century that now separates us from that conflict, however, has dimmed our collective memory. Many Korean War veterans have considered themselves forgotten, their place in history sandwiched between the sheer size of World War II and the fierce controversies of the Vietnam War. The recently built Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall and the upcoming fiftieth anniversary commemorative events should now provide well-deserved recognition. The Korean War still has much to teach us: about military preparedness, about global strategy, about combined operations in a military alliance facing blatant aggression, and about the courage and perseverance of the individual soldier. The modern world still lives with the consequences of a divided Korea and with a militarily strong, economically weak, and unpredictable North Korea. The Korean War was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over and near the Korean peninsula. It lasted three years, the first of which was a seesaw struggle for control of the peninsula, followed by two years of positional warfare as a backdrop to extended cease-fire negotiations. The following is one of five accessible and readable studies designed to enhance understanding of the U.S. Army's role and achievements in the Korean conflict.

Author : Wayne Thompson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 0788140094

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Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2003-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583226032

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The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea. Misinterpretations and misunderstandings are fueling the crisis. "There is no country of comparable significance concerning which so many people are ignorant," American anthropologist Cornelius Osgood said of Korea some time ago. This ignorance may soon have fatal consequences. North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula, one that explores practical alternatives to the current US policy: alternatives that build on the remarkable and historic path of reconciliation that North and South embarked on in the 1990s and that point the way to eventual reunification.

Author : Anthony J. DeBlasi
Publisher : Anthony DeBlasi
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2007-03
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ISBN : 1598244620

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There were plots and bloodshed in South Korean prison camps, riots in Seoul, and an angry president who refused to sit down and negotiate a peace treaty, planning instead to invade North Korea with his own troops. Never mind the US/UN forces and the armistice! When I got to my assigned unit in Korea, Bed-Check Charlie had stopped dropping grenades over the compound at night, from his single-prop plane. The Gook grenadier hoped in the darkness to hit something or somebody in this communications outfit in Bupyong. The cease-fire had stopped the thunder at the front but fighting went on after the armistice. This war -was not over. Hell broke loose in Korea-five years after World War II-when Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea. As US and other UN troops rushed in to keep South Korea out of the jaws of Communist North Korea, the question on many minds was: is this the start of World War III? The Soviet Union was armed with nuclear warheads and nervous Americans built bomb shelters. 1.8 million of us were sent to Korea between 1950 and 1953 to stop the aggression. In those three years, on a peninsula between China and Japan, one-third the size of California, over 36,000 American servicemen lost their lives. The total death toll was over two million. A peace treaty was never signed. How many Americans know that our troops-some 30,000 strong-are in Korea today, facing the same enemy we did more than 50 years ago? What other armed conflict keeps producing veterans after half a century! This intense little book tells who we were and what sent us off to war. It sketches the role of a radio company, reports a chilling moment during prisoner exchange, takes a trip to the DMZ, samplesfirst-hand accounts of GIs before the cease-fire, and speaks of the Korean people and their culture during those war-torn years. The book is illustrated with photos I took there, including rare ones found in the company dark room taken at Panmunjom during the prisoner exchange. It is dedicated to all who served and still serve in Korea and written to highlight a decisive chapter in our history, sadly almost forgotten.

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1597978787

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Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it. Partly drawn from official records, operations journals, and histories, it is based largely on the compelling personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops. Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn you were there account of American troops in fierce combat against th.

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1497603757

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The book that former Defense Secretary James Mattis recommends as America faces the threat of conflict with North Korea. In a recent story, Newsweek reported: “Amid increasingly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and North Korea, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchange barbs and the threat of a nuclear conflict looms, Mattis responded to a question on how best to avoid such a war. “An audience member asked: ‘What can the U.S. military do to lessen the likelihood of conflict on the Korean Peninsula?’ “Mattis responded with a direction to read This Kind of War, stating: ‘There’s a reason I recommend T.R. Fehrenbach’s book, that we all pull it out and read it one more time.’” This Kind of War is “perhaps the best book ever written on the Korean War” (John McCain, The Wall Street Journal), the most comprehensive single-volume history of the conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting US foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this enlightening account give details of the tactics, infantrymen, and equipment, it also chronicles the story of military and political unpreparedness that led to a profligate loss of American lives in Korea. T. R. Fehrenbach, an officer in the conflict, provides us with accounts of the combat situation that could only have been written by an eyewitness in the thick of the action. But what truly sets this book apart from other military memoirs is the piercing analysis of the global political maneuverings behind the brutal ground warfare that marked this bloody period of history, one that has been all but forgotten by many, but has become crucially important again. “A 54-year-old history of the Korean War that’s much better known in military than civilian quarters . . . Interspersed with this high-level narrative are gritty, close-grained accounts of the grim ordeals, heroic sacrifices, and sometimes, tragic blunders of individual soldiers, from privates to generals.” —Politico

Author : James Foley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1134431651

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The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family members, most of whom have not seen their relatives since the Korean War. It is the most pressing humanitarian issue between the two Koreas, and is connected to the greater issue of human rights in North Korea today. However, little serious academic work exists on the subject, in either English or Korean. This new study, based on research conducted in Korea, including interviews in 2001 with Korean families who benefited from the most recent exchanges, addresses the many issues surrounding the divided family problem, and highlights its importance in the path towards Korean rapprochement.