No Gun Ri

Author : Charles J. Hanley,Sang-hun Choe,Martha Mendoza
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466891104

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The Bridge at No Gun Ri by Charles J. Hanley,Sang-hun Choe,Martha Mendoza Pdf

The untold human story of a massacre of Korean civilians by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered it. In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had massacred a large group of South Korean civilians early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal war's 50th anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been suppressed for decades, confirming allegations the U.S. military had sought to dismiss. It made headlines around the world. In The Bridge at No Gun Ri, the team tells the larger, human story behind the incident through the eyes of the people who survived it: on the American side, the green recruits of the "good time" U.S. occupation army in Japan made up of teenagers who viewed unarmed farmers as enemies and generals who had never led men into battle; on the Korean side, the peasant families forced to flee their ancestral village caught between the invading North Koreans and the U.S. Army. The narrative looks at victims both Korean and American; at the ordinary lives and high-level decisions that led to the fatal encounter; at the terror of the three-day slaughter; at the memories and ghosts that forever haunted the survivors. The story of No Gun Ri also illuminates the larger story of the Korean War-also known as the Forgotten War-and how an arbitrary decision to divide the country in 1945 led to the first armed conflict of the Cold War.

Author : Robert L. Bateman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055830809

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No Gun Ri by Robert L. Bateman Pdf

Compelled by the known fallacies in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press story of the alleged slaughter of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri, Major Bateman presents an alternate explanation of the events through the perspective of the soldiers and their commanders, the 1948-50 South Korean civil war, and the broader state of US military policy and force readiness. He debunks the AP allusion to a widespread massacre of civilians by US forces at No Gun Ri and shows how veterans who allegedly witnessed this event and influenced others were not even present. Told concisely with extensive documentation from previously overlooked sources.

Author : Robert L. Bateman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437952178

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No Gun Ri by Robert L. Bateman Pdf

This analysis of the early days of the Korean War brings into focus one particular unit, the 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment. Under enemy attack the first week the battalion arrived in Korea, the soldiers found themselves on July 26, 1950, after a night of confused retreat, at the village of No Gun Ri. Now, 50 years later, the battalion has been accused of having perpetrated a massacre of war crime proportions against South Korean civilians in the 1950 combat action. Bateman demonstrates how reporters from the AP and others fell victim to their own enthusiasm for their hypotheses about a xenophobic and brutal American army or their near total lack of knowledge about military affairs and military history. Maps and photos.

Author : Charles J. Hanley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541768154

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Ghost Flames by Charles J. Hanley Pdf

A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets. The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history -- as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. In this vivid, emotionally compelling, and highly original account, Charles J. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of twenty individuals who lived through it--from a North Korean refugee girl to an American nun, a Chinese general to a black American prisoner of war, a British journalist to a U.S. Marine hero. This is an intimate, deeper kind of history, whose meticulous research and rich detail, drawing on recently unearthed materials and eyewitness accounts, bring the true face of the Korean War, and the vastness of its human tragedy, into a sharper focus than ever before. The "forgotten war" becomes unforgettable.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783346325280

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The No Gun Ri Massacre. Forgotten War, Forgotten Nightmares by Anonim Pdf

Pre-University Paper from the year 2019 in the subject World History - Modern History, grade: 1+, , language: English, abstract: This paper is examining the so called No Gun Ri Massacre of 1950 at the beginning of the Korean War. It takes a more profound look at the No Gun Ri Massacre by firstly analysing its background information, secondly the details of the incident, and thirdly the aftermath of the No Gun Ri Massacre: The reaction from the U.S. government and what impact it has left on two countries and their people. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a massacre is defined as the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. Cambridge Dictionary also seems to endorse this idea, describing it as the killing of a large number of people, especially people who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. Although the precise definition of a massacre does not exist, we understand that two essential criteria must be fulfilled so that an incident can be universally accepted as a massacre. For instance, the killings that took place in No Gun Ri, 1950, has undoubtedly been recognized as a massacre by the public, whose details will be thoroughly analyzed in the course of this report. After the joint investigation of the U.S. Army and the ROK investigation team, the U.S. Department of the Army No Gun Ri Review Report (2001) was issued. Interestingly enough, the term “massacre” only appears twice during the entire 191-pages-long report, even these in forms of direct and indirect quotes. Usage of milder, neutral expressions, such as “killings” (18 times), “incident” (97 times), or “events” (112 times), replaces and often contradicts the incident’s conventional description as a massacre. If so, why would the U.S. government be unwilling to use the word “massacre”, purposely avoiding the word’s usage instead? We will take a more profound look at the No Gun Ri Massacre by firstly analyzing its background information, secondly the details of the incident, and thirdly the aftermath of the No Gun Ri Massacre: The reaction from the U.S. government and what impact it has left on two countries and their people.

Author : Eugene Franklin Clark
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101204399

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The Secrets of Inchon by Eugene Franklin Clark Pdf

“A classic first-person account of heroism, resolve, and ultimate triumph that will touch every American.”—Stephen Coonts Retrieved from a safe-deposit box, this stunning first-hand account of a crucial, but little-known covert mission of the Korean War offers an honest, revealing, and remarkable story of wartime courage—from the very man who led the mission. According to his colleagues, Commander Eugene Franklin Clark had “the nerves of a burglar and the flair of a Barbary Coast Pirate.” And in August of 1950, when General Douglas MacArthur made the unpopular decision to invade Inchon—a move considered by many to be tactical suicide—he sent in Clark to find out what they needed to know. Discovered by North Koreans, he soon found his intelligence gathering interrupted by firefights, air raids, hand to hand combat, and even a small-scale naval battle. Culminating in the night of the invasion, Clark’s account, informed by a growing brotherhood with his newfound allies, is rich in both adventure and humanity. “What an adventure it describes! There is no reason to disbelieve any of it, but if only a tenth of it were true, it would rival anything Hollywood could cook up.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117868310

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Korean War Atrocities by United States Pdf

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487924

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After the Korean War by Heonik Kwon Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of the Korean War and its enduring legacies through the lenses of intimate human and social experience.

Author : Suhi Choi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190855260

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Right to Mourn by Suhi Choi Pdf

In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War. Only since the 1990s has the government begun to acknowledge the atrocities committed by South Korean and American troops that resulted in large numbers of civilian casualties. The Truth and Reconciliation Committee, new laws honoring victims, and construction of monuments and memorials have finally opened public spaces for mourning. In Right to Mourn, Suhi Choi explores this new context of remembering in which memories that have long been private are brought into official sites. As the generation that once carried these memories fades away, Choi poses an increasingly critical question: can a memorial communicate trauma and facilitate mourning? Through careful examination of recently built Korean War memorials (the Jeju April 3 Peace Park, the Memorial for the Gurye Victims of Yosun Killings, and the No Gun Ri Peace Park), Right to Mourn provokes readers to look at the nearly seven-decade-old war within the most updated context, and shows how suppressed trauma manifests at the transient interactions among bodies, objects, and rituals at the sites of these memorials.

Author : Chae-Jin Lee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 080188330X

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A Troubled Peace by Chae-Jin Lee Pdf

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He explains the continuously changing nature of U.S.-Korea relations by discussing the goals the United States has sought for Korea, the ways in which these goals have been articulated, and the methods used to implement them. Using a careful analysis of declassified diplomatic documents, primary materials in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and extensive interviews with American and Korean officials, Lee draws attention to a number of factors that have affected U.S. policy: the functions of U.S. security policy in Korea, the role of the United States in South Korea's political democratization, President Clinton's policy of constructive engagement toward North Korea, President Bush's hegemonic policy toward North Korea, and the hexagonal linkages among the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and the two Koreas. Drawing on concepts of containment, deterrence, engagement, preemption, and appeasement, Lee's balanced and thoughtful approach reveals the frustrations of all players in their attempts to arrive at a modicum of coexistence. His objective, comprehensive, and definitive study reveals a dynamic—and incredibly complex—series of relationships underpinning a troubled and tenuous peace.

Author : Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307271273

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Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel (The New York Times) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all. Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Told with deep feeling, the novel invites us deep into the hearts and thoughts of Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, who is filled with radiance. We are also with Corporal Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire alongside the Korean children he tries to rescue. We see Lark’s dreams for Termite and her own future, and how, with the aid of a childhood love and a spectral social worker, she makes them happen. We learn of Lola’s love for her soldier husband and her children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.

Author : Su-kyoung Hwang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248456

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Korea's Grievous War by Su-kyoung Hwang Pdf

In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned elections and military personnel were deployed. What began as a counterinsurgency operation targeting 350 local rebels resulted in the deaths of roughly 30,000 uninvolved civilians, 10 percent of the island's population. Su-kyoung Hwang's Korea's Grievous War recounts the civilian experience of anticommunist violence, beginning with the Cheju Uprising in 1948 and continuing through the Korean War until 1953. Wartime declarations of emergency by both the U.S. and Korean governments were issued to contain communism, but a major consequence of their actions was to contribute to the loss of more than two million civilian lives. Hwang inventories the persecutions of left-leaning intellectuals under the South Korean regime of Syngman Rhee and the executions of political prisoners and innocent civilians to "prevent" their collaboration with North Korea. She highlights the role of the United States in observing, documenting, and yet failing to intervene in the massacres and of the U.S. Air Force's three-year firebombing campaign in North and South Korea. Hwang draws on archival research and personally conducted interviews to recount vividly the acts of anticommunist violence at the human level and illuminate the sufferings of civilian victims. Korea's Grievous War presents the historical background, political motivations, legal bases, and social consequences of anticommunist violence, tracing the enduring legacy of this destruction in the testimonies of survivors and bereaved families that only now can give voice to the lived experience of this grievous war and its aftermath.

Author : Philip D. Chinnery
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473815810

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Korean Atrocity! by Philip D. Chinnery Pdf

As there was no clear victor at the conclusion of the Korean War, no war crime trials were held. But, as this book reveals, there is evidence of at least 1,600 atrocities and war crimes perpetrated against troops serving with the United Nations command in Korea. The bulk of the victims were Americans but many British servicemen were tortured, killed or simply went missing.Much of the carefully researched material in this book is horrific but the stark truth is that those North Koreans and Chinese responsible went unpunished for their shameful deeds.Korean Atrocity examines the three phases of this little known but bitter conflict from the POWs perspective the first phase when the two warring factions fought themselves to a stalemate, next, the treatment of POWs in North Korea and China, and finally the repatriation/post active conflict period. During the third phase it was realised that a staggering 7956 Americans and 100 British servicemen were unaccounted for. Many POWs were not released until two years after the end of hostilities. Bizarrely the US Government insisted on a news black-out on those left behind which raises questions as to what has been done to find the missing.This is a shocking, sobering and thought-provoking book.

Author : U. S. Army US Army Command and Staff College,Us Army Command and General Staff Colleg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503039315

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What Happened at No Gun Ri ? by U. S. Army US Army Command and Staff College,Us Army Command and General Staff Colleg Pdf

On 26 July 1950 American soldiers from 2-7 Cavalry fired on civilians near No Gun Ri, South Korea. These civilians remained trapped under a bridge between North Korean and American forces for three days. In September 1999, the Associated Press (AP) reported that American soldiers killed hundreds of Koreans at No Gun Ri, under the orders of officers with a blatant disregard for civilian life. This story prompted an investigation by the Department of the Army Inspector General that found evidence of war crimes inconclusive, but acknowledged that Americans killed Korean civilians in the vicinity of No Gun Ri. Drawing on primary and secondary sources this thesis examines the actions at No Gun Ri to determine whether American forces committed war crimes and includes detailed research on the political situation in South Korea, the tactics of the North Korean People's Army, and the quality of the American Army in 1950. A thorough analysis of primary documents reveals a more complicated battlefield than presented by the AP. Direct orders were not given by officers to shoot civilians, but a poorly crafted policy from Eighth Army, and failure by subordinate commanders to modify the policy resulted in unnecessary civilian casualties.

Author : Martin Russ
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123513918

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Breakout by Martin Russ Pdf

"Breakout" is the riveting saga of one of the most heroic campaigns in American military history, masterfully told by the author of "The Last Parallel." It is the gripping story of the 1950 campaign of American Marines as they faced sudden death in the Korean hills. of photos.