Korean War

Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash in the Korean War relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege....

Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations....

Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that....

Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country's most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves....

When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children....

The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

This is the complete and captivating account of how a would-be Korean racehorse became one of the greatest Marine Corps wartime heroes....

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

Omar Nelson Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer so honored after World War II. This new biography gives an account of Bradley’s formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life....

Prisoner of Lies is the remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years....

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War...

For the first time, there was one complete record of what happened to the army troops trapped east of the Chosin Reservoir during the first wintry blast of the Korean War....

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....

A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.

By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni....

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability, a quality which hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments....

Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home....

2 manuscritos completos en 1 audiolibro: La Guerra de Corea y La Guerra de Vietnam. Escuche para saber mas....

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months....

Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States....

In this inspiring autobiography, Colonel Ralph Puckett recounts his extraordinary experiences on and off the battlefield....

A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets....

La narrativa de la Guerra de Corea en Occidente, y particularmente en los Estados Unidos, cuenta la historia de un conflicto entre dos superpotencias mundiales e ideologías contrapuestas en un rincón lejano del mundo....

With this book, one of those scarred by that experience recounts the events of the battle and his lifelong efforts to deal with the residual horrors....