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  • A Conscript in Korea

    A memoir of service in the Korean War, though bitter cold, monsoons, and ever-present danger from enemy forces—includes photos.This remarkable story begins when, as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Korean Conflict

    The Tensions between Britain and America

    by Ian McLaine ...
    In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship' from the journey to war beginning in 1947 to the fall of the Labour government in 1951. Ian McLaine ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A Marine Division in Nightmare Alley

    First published in 1958, A Marine Division in Nightmare Alley is a brief but gripping narrative of the author’s experiences as a young U.S. Marine during the Korean conflict. Beginning with his enlistment at age 17, his training at Camps LeJeune and Pendleton, to his landing at Pusan and subsequent combat (including action at Hagaru-ri and the Chosin Reservoir), the book provides a firsthand ... Read more

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  • A Morning in June

    Defending Outpost Harry

    By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental advantages that could be translated into gains at the peace negotiations in Panmunjom. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A New Battlefield

    The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea 1950-51

    Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue. A limited yet competent history had been produced in 1953 by the then Adjutant Captain Hugh Hamill, although this has been long out of print.A New Battlefield follows ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Ride to Panmunjom

    Lt. Duane Thorin was a Navy helicopter pilot, who rescued many Americans before he himself was captured in 1952 and held as a prisoner of war by North Korea until his release in August, 1953.This book, first published in 1956, is a fictional account of men in Korean POW camps, based on Lt. Thorin’s own experiences, as well as those of other prisoners of war in North Korea. ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Korean War

    As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury's survey of "the half war" takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the Pusan perimeter crisis, MacArthur's master stroke at Inchon and the intervention by Chinese forces that November. At this point, other popular histories of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Soldier's Final Journey

    by Gerry B. Feld ...
    Series Book 2 - The Kenrude's Fight For Freedom
    "A Soldier's Final Journey," Begins in Glendale Minnesota where Steve Kenrude is beginning to put his life back together after returning from World War Two. He works on the family farm, marries his child hood sweetheart Karen Donnelly, and they begin raising a family together. Just when everything is falling into place, President Truman orders Steve and thousands of other veteran paratroopers back ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Study Of The Aerial Interdiction of Railways During The Korean War

    This study undertakes to examine the aerial interdiction activities conducted against the enemy railway system by United Nations’ forces during the Korean War, June 1950-July 1953. It has three major goals: (1) to compile a concise history of these interdiction activities; (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts as it might relate to the conduct of the total war effort; and (3) to make ... Read more

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  • A Test of U.S. Civil-Military Relations: Structural Influences of Military Reform on the Conflict between Presidents and Senior Military Commanders during Times of War - Civil War, Korean War, Kosovo

    This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study seeks to understand the influence of U.S. military reform on U.S. civil-military relations functioning within a zone of cooperation or conflict between political and military realms during times of war. It seeks to demonstrate how various efforts at organizational military ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Warrior's Odyssey

    A Life Transformed

    The memoir, A Warrior's Odyssey: A Life Transformed, is about my life altered by military service--how the U.S. Army changed me from a confused and frightened a 19-year old Mexican American into a commissioned officer and a confident citizen. With the response of the United States to North Korea's sudden invasion of the South in 1950, I was among the many thousands of young men about to be taken ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abandoned Cold War Places

    The bunkers, submarine bases, missile silos, airfields and listening posts form the world's most secretive conflict

    Series series Abandoned
    170 superb colour photographs from around the worldDetailed captions describe the original purpose of the installation shown and its fateIncludes bunkers, missile silos, listening posts, submarine bases, aircraft graveyards and much more ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • After the Flag Has Been Folded

    A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together

    Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism and bigotry -- and suddenly the care and well-being of three small children were solely in the hands ... Read more

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  • Aftermath

    The Makers of the Postwar World

    In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - receded, replaced by two new superpowers - the Soviet Union and the United States. Beyond Europe, a swath of new countries was created: India, Communist China, Israel and the modern Arab states, Indonesia, the Koreas. But there were darker ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Airpower

    The Decisive Force in Korea

    “Without question, the decisive force in the Korean War was airpower. Through its unrelenting efforts in those dark days of the summer of 1950, U.S. and other U.N. ground forces were able to retain a foothold on the peninsula. During the three years of fighting that followed, defeat or victory often depended upon the successful accomplishment by the United States Far East Air Forces of the tasks ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Were Not Heroes

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    $3.99 USD

  • Allied Marines In The Korean War: Train Wreckers And Ghost Killers [Illustrated Edition]

    [Illustrated with more than 40 maps, photos and diagrams]Command Historian Dr Leo J. Daugherty III reveals the missions, actions and successes of the British and Korean Marines that fought alongside the US Marines in the UN Allied forces during the Korean War.“Among the United Nations forces committed to the far-flung battlefield that was Korea, it was the Marine component that stood out in its ... Read more

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  • America's Commandos

    U.S. Special Operations Forces of World War II and Korea

    Series series G.I.
    A photographic history of elite units in WWII and Korea, including uniforms, equipment, and more.America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throughout World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long range patrols, rescuing POWs, and living and fighting in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's First Air Battles: Lessons Learned or Lessons Lost? Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Early Air Operational Stages, Flexibility Needed to Adapt to Changing National Direction

    This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, examines several important airpower factors to include familiarity with the nature and geography of the conflict; parity with the adversary, especially in terms of air superiority; command and control of air assets, especially in interdiction and close air support missions; and the confluence of ... Read more

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  • An ''Unnecessary'' War

    An “Unnecessary” War is a researched readable account of the Korean Conflict, told an Air Force Officer who served with the 3rd Bomb Wing (Light). (Not until 1986 did the US Congress declare the Korean War to be a real war) The cost in human and material loss in the three war years was huge. Any gain is still difficult to assess. Communism was halted, but a grim totalitarian regime was left in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An American Rabbi in Korea

    A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War

    Translated by Stanley Russell Rosen ...
    Series series Judaic Studies Series
    A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the front lines of the Korean WarDuring the height of the Korean conflict, 1950–51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles for Der Morgen Zhornal, a Yiddish daily in New York, documenting his wartime experiences as well as those of the servicemen under his care. An American Rabbi in Korea is an English ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Eye in the Sky

    An Eye in the Sky is the story of John Pfuhl an aerial reconnaissance photographer and navigator. He was involved in the Korean War and Second World War. The story extremely interesting, and the way things were woven together is intriguing. This is a book written by someone who is, amongst other things, passionate about aircraft. Aircraft always play an important role in any war. 'Eye in the sky' ... Read more

    $18.85 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy of Victory

    Why the United States Triumphed in World War II, Fought to a Stalemate in Korea, Lost in Vietnam, and Failed in Iraq

    This groundbreaking book provides the first systematic comparison of America’s modern wars and why they were won or lost. John D. Caldwell uses the World War II victory as the historical benchmark for evaluating the success and failure of later conflicts. Unlike WWII, the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraqi Wars were limited, but they required enormous national commitments, produced no lasting victories, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • And the Wind Blew Cold

    The Story of an American POW in North Korea

    A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along with three others, was captured. During a month-long march to the POW camp the Americans frequently came ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus