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Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2020, 1982.
Description
"An absolutely brilliant book. One cannot understand America and its history without reading it." - Merle Miller. Often described as "the forgotten war," the Korean War (1950-53) had a huge impact on Cold War history, and its consequences are far from over. This definitive, readable history is based on previously unavailable Freedom of Information Act documents and well illustrated with maps and photographs. New Preface by the author"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as Frozen Chosin.
June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting...
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"Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
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