Korean War
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Korean Short History
$15.99 Add to cartAs 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 No
- Author: Stokesbury, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 30 1990
- ISBN10: 0688095135
- Language: English
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Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richa
- Series: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-E
- Author: Downey, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199120
- Language: English
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White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea
$21.95 Add to cartOperating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. Wi… [more below]
- Series: Memories of War
- Author: Malcom, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574886053
- Language: English
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Notes from the Divided Country: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects–colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation
- Author: Kwock Kim, Suji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0807128732
- Language: English
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After the Korean War: An Intimate History
$37.00 Add to cartFollowing his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War’s enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate … [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Kwon, Heonik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1108487920
- Language: English
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Devotion (Movie Tie-In): An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$20.00 Read moreNEW 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- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593722337
- Language: English
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Korea: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHaving spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons– the South as an economic success story and f… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830777
- Language: English
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The Korean War
$20.99 Add to cartIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastings–preeminent military historian–takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle t
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 391
- Publish Date: October 15, 1988
- ISBN10: 067166834X
- Language: English
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Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story — The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
$19.99 Add to cartAn epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian (“Gives the brave Marines of George Company long ove… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820447
- Language: English
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On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir–The Greatest Battle of the Korean War
$18.00 Add to cartFrom 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 batt… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1101971215
- Language: English
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La Espera / The Waiting
$27.95 Read moreMEJOR C?MIC DEL A?O The Washington Post / Forbes / Publishers Weekly
FINALISTA Harvey Award / LA Times Book Prize El
PREMIOS Freeman Awards / YALSA Book Award / Cartoonist Studio Prize / Prix BDGest’- Author: Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8418897775
- Language: Spanish
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Snow Hunters
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and conf… [more below]
- Author: Yoon, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1476714827
- Language: English
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War Trash
$21.00 Add to cartHa Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Jin, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1400075793
- Language: English
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MASH FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Best Care Anywhere
$19.99 Read moreHere’s the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. M*A*S*H began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After being r… [more below]
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Sherman, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1480355895
- Language: English
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Sgt. Reckless: America’s War Horse
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
She wasn’t a horse–she was a Marine. She might not have been much to look at–a small “Mongolian mare,” they called her–but she came from racing stock, and had the blood- Author: Hutton, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1621573818
- Language: English
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
$19.00 Add to cartA gut-clenching and meticulously detailed (USA Today) account from the Korean War and how Captain William Barber led 246 courageous Marines of the Seventh Marine Regiment in the perilous defense of Fo
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144519
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
$15.99 Add to cartExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times–one iso… [more below]
- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851026
- Language: English
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
$32.50 Add to cartMarguerite 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 liberatio
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393882128
- Language: English
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
$28.00 Add to cartCalled “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jo
- Author: Hackworth, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982144041
- Language: English
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This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
$32.95 Add to cart“A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.”—Washington Post
Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield dia- Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: March 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1574883348
- Language: English
