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  • No Mercy, No Leniency

    Communist Mistreatment of British & Allied Prisoners of War in Korea

    This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War.The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War.He explains in detail how many prisonors were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skirmish Red, White and Blue

    The History of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, 1945-1953

    Much about the Korean War still is hidden and much will long remain hidden. Nevertheless, an attempt was made by the author to give a historical account of the 7th Cavalry Regiment's activities during Occupation Duty in Japan after World War II and combat actions within the Korean War. This was accomplished by exploring all known official existing records in the National Military Archives, which ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting on the Brink

    Defense of the Pusan Perimeter

    by Unzl W. Ent ...
    This book chronicles the Pusan Perimeter campaign, providing clear insight into occupation in Korea, Japan, and Okinawa prior to the Korean War. With an historical text written by General Uzal Ent (Ret.), a rifle platoon veteran of the Perimeter, this book details the strategies, tactics and actions of the troops, yet includes the personal accounts of hundreds of soldiers and marines who were ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean War

    An International History

    Series Book 68 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and a broad assessment of its critical role in the Cold War. He ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • War Dawgs

    Kulbes' Mongrels in Korea, 1950-1951

    This is the second book in an ongoing trilogy about the military career of a remarkable soldier and officer. The first book, “To the Last Man!” Kulbes’ Mongrels at the Chosin Reservoir, described D Company of the 10th Combat Engineers during the icy ordeal at the Chosin Reservoir and their against-all-odds withdrawal to Pusan. During the month of November 1950, 350,000 Chinese troops quietly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Officers in Flight Suits

    The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War

    Sherwood recounts the story of American Air Force pilots in the Korean War and the development of a lasting fighter-pilot cultureThe United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • You Tremble Body

    Commissioned in the US Infantry after two years Royal Canadian Army and a year training in the US Army Air Force, ending in Czechoslovakia facing Ruskies and Dud's rifle platoon is overrun on an outpost and he plays dead while the screaming Chinese Fourth Field Army trots by. On the 23rd of the May Massacre clipped by a sniper, much more misery and home to brood over bloody scenes. Locating a few ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Pusan to Panmunjom

    by Paik Sun Yup ...
    Brassey's presents the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the twenty-nine year-old man who became South Korea's first four-star general. With photographs and a foreword by the commanders of U.S. forces in the war, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Gen. James A. Van Fleet, FROM PUSAN TO PANMUNJON brings an unprecedented perspective to a cataclysmic war. ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Korean War

    This compelling photographic history examines the war in its entirety, from its causes and protagonists to the strategies, weapons and battles. Goldstein and Maihafer have collected more than 450 vivid photographs, many never before seen by the general public. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean conflict, The Korean War remembers the experience of the American fighting man in the ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • This Kind of War

    The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    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 ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Ship of Miracles

    14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage

    by Bill Gilbert ...
    It was a miracle worthy of the season. When Captain Leonard La Rue spied from his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, the throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames, he didn't hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MASH

    An Army Surgeon in Korea

    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. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

  • Fortune Favours the Brave

    The Battles of the Hook Korea, 1952–53

    by A.J. Barker ...
    All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry. The Hook, the name given to a prominent ridge on the Peninsula, saw more blood spilt than any other feature in this prolonged and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Warbirds of the Post-War Piston Era

    This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to the propeller-driven aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Canadian Forces in the post-WWII piston-era. The handbooks in this series include a general description and a photograph from the Canadian Forces Archives of at least one of the key variants or ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Korean War

    The West Confronts Communism

    An authoritative account by the historian and Korean War vet offers “a comprehensive picture of the war . . . and riveting tales of heroics . . . Gripping” (The Washington Post Book World).Winner of the Westminster Medal for Military LiteratureOn June 25, 1950, the North Korean People’s Army shocked American troops by crossing the 38th parallel into South Korea. After five years of relative quiet ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordinary Heroes

    Anecdotes of Veterans

    Right in the middle of the movie, a group of kamikazes flew over and one of them landed on the USS Randolphthis was our first touch of war - Betty GallagherWe were about five hundred miles from England when we got attacked. We knew we werent going to make it. We got an anti-aircraft shell stuck in the plane - Frank HorschOrdinary Heroes relates, in their own words, the experiences of men and women ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Beyond the Shadow of Camptown

    Korean Military Brides in America

    by Ji-Yeon Yuh ...
    Series Book 25 - Nation of Nations
    Explores the experiences of Korean military brides in the United StatesSince the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association with U.S. military camptowns ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War

    An Oral History of Korean War POWs

    Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War presents a devastating oral history of Korean War POWs.The Korean War POW remains the most maligned victim of all American wars. For nearly half a century, the media, general public, and even scholars have described hundreds of these prisoners as "brainwashed" victims who uncharacteristically caved in to their Communist captors or, even worse, as turncoats ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Confess, Confess, Confess

    The True Story of a Prisoner of War

    by Nick Flores ...
    This is the story of Nick A. Flores who was captured during the first battle at Hell Fire Valley, a few miles from Chosin Reservoir. He served 36 months as a POW at Camp One in Chong-sung, Korea. While a POW, Nick nursed nineteen POWs, brought in by the North Korean Army, and saved thirteen by spoon-feeding, bathing, listening and comforting them -- a task that no one else wanted or would do. He ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secrets of Inchon

    “A classic first-person account of heroism, resolve, and ultimate triumph that will touch every American.”—Stephen CoontsRetrieved from a safe-deposit box, this stunning first-hand account of a crucial, but little-known covert mission of the Korean War offers an honest, revealing, and remarkable story of wartime courage—from the very man who led the mission.According to his colleagues, Commander ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Captured at the Imjin River

    The Korean War Memoirs of a Gloster

    by David Green ...
    The author, a young conscript, fought with The Glorious Glosters at the legendary Imjin River battle. Heavily outnumbered by the Chinese and subjected to 'human-wave' infantry attacks, he and his colleagues suffered the trauma of being overrun and the vast majority of those who were not killed became POWs. This serious reverse of fortunes shocked postwar Britain but the bravery of the Battalion ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean War in World History

    Edited by William Stueck ...
    The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mutiny at Koje Island

    by Hal Vetter ...
    This Korean War book tells the true story of a brutal and epic prison revolt that occurred during the war.This absolutely authentic, horrifying account of treachery, intrigue and ruthless brutality among 150,000 Communist POWs herded together on the small rugged island of Koje-do in Korea, tells of their holding the American commander as hostage and of their ultimate vicious mutiny, armed with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD