Korean War e-bog
131,30 DKK
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It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastingspreeminent military historiantakes 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 two-hundred vetsincluding the ChineseHastings follows real officers...
E-bog
131,30 DKK
Forlag
Simon & Schuster
Udgivet
20 oktober 2015
Længde
416 sider
Genrer
1FPK
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781501131905
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastingspreeminent military historiantakes 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 two-hundred vetsincluding the ChineseHastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at homethe strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradleyand shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.