To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to groom its public image. This book chronicles a rare
The high-flying, heart-pounding exploits of United States Navy combat pilots during the Korean War—heroes who inspired James Michener's classic, The Bridges at Toko-RiIn 1951, James Michener went to
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Southeast Asia Studies. As if it weren't bad enough that the Korean War is, for many in the West, a "forgotten war" wedged between the larger conflicts of World War I
The first volume in a new series focusing on Korean culture, history, and society, this book offers a radically different view of the Koryo state from the 10th to 12th centuries. Breuker (Korean Histo
By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line
Weaving together military operations and strategies with political strategy and civil-military relations, the author covers the most active phase of the Korean War, the 12-month period from North Kore
"Salmon’s vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict."? ?Time OutThe most notorious and celebrated battle in the Korean War, from a British point of vie
In the decades since the “forgotten war” in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of
Striking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring o
With tensions escalating between the United States and North Korea over the North's resumption of its nuclear weapons program, Korea has recently become a focus of media attention. Home to more than
This reference work provides information on all known military operations carried out under United Nations command as part of the Korean War, from June 1950 through 22 July 1954.Following an introduc
For the first time, using original sources and his own reporting going back to 1972 when he met Kim Dae Jung at his home in Seoul, Donald Kirk explores the great untold story of modern Korean history
An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the tra
One of the darkest periods in American military history began on June 25, 1950, when hordes of North Korean troops stormed across the 38th Parallel into South Korea. The Communists' blitzkrieg-style
This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in North Korea since late 2005, continuing the overview of developments which were covered in the author’s North Kor
A former US Army military intelligence officer, Stanley (security studies, Georgetown U.) uses detailed qualitative case studies and quantitative analysis to test the hypothesis that a change in the r
