The Korean War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671668341)

It 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 to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two-hundred vets--including the Chinese--Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home--the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley--and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

Author: Max Hastings
ISBN-10: 067166834X
ISBN-13: 9780671668341
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 10/15/1988
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.91h x 6.54w x 1.06d