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Conflict

Door Robert Leckie

Conflict
CategorieAlgemeen Militaria
Boeknummer#385409
TitelConflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953
AuteurLeckie, Robert
BoektypeGebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Jaar van uitgave448
ISBN100306807165
ISBN139780306807169
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingOriginal gilt lettered grey boards, dust jacket, map on endpapers, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, map, 8vo.
SamenvattingIn June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel (the arbitrary, militarily indefensible line of latitude separating the Communist North from the independent Republic of Korea) to unite the country by force. Three bloody, bitter years of fighting ensued during which the seesawing fortunes of this frustrating war thwarted North Korea's ambitions while treating the ill-equipped, overconfident UN peacekeeping forces, mostly Americans, no less harshly. Conflict examines the war in all its military, political, and human dimensions: the battles at Pusan Perimeter, at Inchon, at Chosin Reservoir, at Heartbreak Ridge; significant figures like Syngman Rhee, Kim Il Sung, Ridgway, MacArthur, and Truman; controversies like MacArthur's dismissal, the difficulties of P. O. W. exchanges, and charges of brainwashing and germ warfare; as well as penetrating analyses of the performance of the American soldier, and the war's effect on the U. S. military and our national psyche. As such, Conflict stands as an unsurpassed, vivid contribution to history.
Pagina's496
ConditieGoed — Tears in dust jacket repaired with tape, edges dust jacket worn, top cut foxed.
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