Korean War

Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash in the Korean War relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege....

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country's most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves....

It was the first war we could not win....

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War...

This is the complete and captivating account of how a would-be Korean racehorse became one of the greatest Marine Corps wartime heroes....

Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that....

“If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?”

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months....

Prisoner of Lies is the remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years....

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni....

Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region....

Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations....

The Korean War is often labeled “the forgotten war”, and though it has received renewed attention in recent years, it still pales compared to others in recent history like the Vietnam War or even the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.....

In 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....

Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States....

Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive....

As an early crisis of the Cold War, the Korean War set important precedents for how conflicts would be handled during this era. It has also shaped Korea’s history for more than half a century....

The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Edward Posey's The US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers is the first complete history of this elite all-volunteer unit....

Holding the Line chronicles the carrier war in Korea, focusing on frontline combat while also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula....

For the first time, there was one complete record of what happened to the army troops trapped east of the Chosin Reservoir during the first wintry blast of the Korean War....

Omar Nelson Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer so honored after World War II. This new biography gives an account of Bradley’s formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life....

A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations....

With this book, one of those scarred by that experience recounts the events of the battle and his lifelong efforts to deal with the residual horrors....

From the racetracks of Seoul to the battlegrounds of the Korean War, Reckless was a horse whose strength, tenacity, and relentless spirit made her a hero among a regiment of US Marines....