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As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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The fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War makes this an appropriate time to revisit This Kind of War, the monumental study of the conflict that began in June 1950. Successive generations of U.S. military officers have considered this book an indispensable part of their education.T. R. Fehrenbach's narrative brings to life the harrowing and bloody battles that were fought up and down the Korean Peninsula. Partly drawn from official records, operations...
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An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a...
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An epic story of a legendary Marine company's valor and sacrifice in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian. Thoroughly researched and vividly told, this is a fitting testament to the heroic deeds of George Company and their unforgettable story of bravery and courage.
8) MASH
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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The definitive account of the final and bloodiest battle for Pork Chop Hill By the summer of 1953, the Korean War had long since reached a stalemate. As peace negotiations dragged on, units of the US 7th Infantry Division rebuilt the defenses of Hill 255, one of numerous outposts in front of the Main Line of Resistance extending across the peninsula. Better known by its nickname, Pork Chop Hill, the outpost had twice been the scene of some of the...
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Remember My Service Productions, a division of StoryRock, Inc
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A publication dedicated to U.S. Veterans of the Korean War and their families, thanking them for their service. A limited edition commemorative book with a dedication to all Korean War Veterans provided by Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea. FIlled with historic images, black and white, and numerous contributions. Contents include the following sections: The Attack, Fighting Back, Waiting for a Resolution, A New Beginning, The Strenth...
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Timeless Media Group
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"Korea is often called America's forgotten war, yet history tells is that almost 150,000 American servicemen were either killed or wounded during this "police action." In this collection of newsreels and U.S. Government footage, you wil relive America's experiences in Korea from the earliest days of intervention in 1950 to the signing of the Armistice in 1953." -- on contaier insert.
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The adventures continue for the doctors and nurses of the 4077th unit during the Korean War. Includes all 24 classic season six episodes from 1977-78. Includes fan favorites "Fade Out, Fade In" and "Major Topper".
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"Between December 1950 and July 1953, the northwest corner of North Korea between the Chongchon and Yalu rivers bore witness to an air campaign unlike any other before or since. It was fought almost exclusively by two antagonists: those flying the US Air Force's premier air superiority day-fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, and those flying the Soviet Red Air Force's powerful interceptor, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. Long believed in the West...
18) The Korean War
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"An early crisis in the Cold War occurred in Korea, known as the period of U.S.-Soviet tensions, from 1947 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, a country that had been divided at the end of the Second World War. In June 1950, the army of Communist North Korea invaded U.S.-supported South Korea. President Harry S. Truman committed American troops to defend South Korea, and the U.S. made up the largest part of the United Nations force in that...
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"A clash between a North Korean invading army in 1950 South Korea and a U.S. defense force is challenged by overwhelmingly brutal weather conditions in a high-action account of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir that is told from the viewpoints of soldiers and leaders on both sides of the conflict"--
20) Lark and Termite
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Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
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