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  • Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

    by Jennet Conant ...
    A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession.Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • American Caesar

    Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964

    The bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century."Electric...Tense with the feeling that this is the authentic MacArthur...Splendid reading." -- New York TimesInspiring, outrageous... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rangers in Korea

    The War the World Didn't Want to Remember, Fought by the Men the World Will Never Forget

    A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite band who volunteered for action behind enemy lines. They were the men of the U. S. Army’s legendary Rangers. They succeeded in making the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines At The Changjin Reservoir [Illustrated Edition]

    Series Book 7 - Marines In The Korean War Commemorative Series
    Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations.This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign.The race to the Yalu was on. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon and the subsequent breakout of the U.S. Eighth Army from the Pusan Perimeter and the recapture of Seoul had ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twice Forgotten

    African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History

    *Journalists began to call the Korean War "the Forgotten War" even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the ... Read more

    $23.99 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

  • The Korean War in Asia

    A Hidden History

    Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts in the region and examines the human impact of the war on neighboring countries, focusing particularly on the ways in which the Korean War shaped regional cross-border movements of people, goods, and ideas (including ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • BEYOND COURAGE: Escape Tales Of Airmen In The Korean War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Clay Blair ...
    Includes ten illustrations and one map.Clay Blair, Jr., close to Air Force headquarters during the Korean war, heard, as did everyone there, fascinating stories of Air Force pilots who had crashed or been shot down behind enemy lines and then managed, by one means or another, often enduring incredible hardships, to make their way back to U.N. lines. However, at the time, these stories were highly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Devotion

    An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

    by Adam Makos ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.“In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press • “Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson**Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • This Kind of War

    The Classic Military History of the Korean War

    The book that former Defense Secretary James Mattis recommends as America faces the threat of conflict with North Korea.In a recent story, Newsweek reported: “Amid increasingly deteriorating relations between the U.S. and North Korea, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchange barbs and the threat of a nuclear conflict looms, Mattis responded to a question on how best to avoid such a war. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean War

    A History

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    Series Book 33 - Modern Library Chronicles
    A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Coldest Winter

    America and the Korean War

    "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York TimesDavid Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • In Mortal Combat

    Korea, 1950–1953

    by John Toland ...
    A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marine!

    The Life of Chesty Puller

    by Burke Davis ...
    The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times–bestselling author.“We are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!” —Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMCIn the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Desperate Ground

    The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

    by Hampton Sides ...
    **From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War."Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story—the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir—has been told ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    “A great journalist” raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings (The Baltimore Sun).“Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins.” —From the author’s prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Stand of Fox Company

    A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

    “The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers WeeklyNovember 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The General vs. the President

    MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil Warcomes 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."A highly readable take on the clash of two titanic figures in a period of hair-trigger nuclear tensions.... History ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Greatest Korean War Stories EVER

    Volume I

    Follow Private Meyer's wartime memoirs as he travels you back in time to 1950 to 1952, as an infantry soldier on the frontlines of the Korean War, only just turning 17 years old. Be inspired by these true life stories with fully illustrated comics for each one. See him survive harsh winters in foxholes and deal with the life at war. Motivating, captivating, and sometimes even funny. So grab a cup ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reckless

    Pride of the Marines

    by Andrew Geer ...
    Reckless was a horse who became a member of the Marines during the Korean War. She carried ammunition and was cited for her bravery under fire. Beloved by the Marines, she was decorated and promoted to sergeant. At the end of the war the Marines had her shipped to the U.S. for retirement. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coldest War

    A Memoir of Korea

    by James Brady ...
    James Brady's The Coldest War is a powerful and moving memoir of the Korean War.America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the fiftieth anniversary of this devastating conflict, James Brady tells the story of his life as a young marine lieutenant in Korea.In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wingmen

    The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

    by Adam Lazarus ...
    CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the YearThe untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history.It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Pusan

    A Memoir

    by Addison Terry ...
    “A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.”–From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr., USAF (Ret.), author of God Is My Co-PilotThe rapid-fire success of the North Korean Army’s (NKA) invasion of South Korea, launched on June 25, 1950, and supported by Russia ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Yellow Raven

    The horrors of warfare through the eyes of an infantryman. From the human wave attacks in the Korean War, captivity in Laos, combat in Vietnam, to moving up the ranks and retiring as the highest enlisted rank in the army: Command Sergeant Major.This book covers Therriault's fascinating military career with brief chapters of his childhood and life after the military.Therriault was born Nov. 2, 1931 ... Read more

    Free