Remembering Korea 1950

Author : H. K. Shin
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874175257

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Remembering Korea 1950 by H. K. Shin Pdf

Hyung K. Shin was sixteen years old when the North Korean army invaded South Korea in June 1950. Fleeing his home, Shin soon found himself alone in Pusan, a refugee without resources or any means of support. To save himself from destitution, he lied about his age and volunteered for service in the South Korean army. Shin’s account of the months that followed is a moving record of the Korean War from the perspective of an ordinary ROK soldier. He recounts his hasty training and subsequent experiences as a battlefield soldier in North Korea, as a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp, and as a refugee again in the massive flight of civilians and ROK military personnel retreating before the onslaught of the Chinese invasion. Through it all, Shin struggles to retain his humanity and pursue his education. In the process, the naïve schoolboy becomes a man. Today, Hyung K. Shin is an internationally respected chemist, but in the pages of this memoir he carries us back to Korea during a pivotal moment in that country’s history. This is the first account in English that describes the war from the perspective of a Korean who lived through and fought in it. Shin’s detailed and lively narrative is a stirring monument to the survival of human decency and kindness in the midst of terror, cruelty, despair, and the destruction of a proud nation.

Author : Dennis J Ottley
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480961791

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Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) by Dennis J Ottley Pdf

Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) By Dennis J. Ottley Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) is the author’s memoir. This book describes his involvement in Korea during the Korean War and points out the reasoning behind the conflict. Over the years, the Korean War has been considered “The Forgotten War” by many. At one time, President Harry S. Truman referred to it as a “Police Action,” but 5,720,000 Americans who served in Korean have never forgotten what it was about and that it was much more than just a “Police Action.” They understand that it was an all-out war, and one of the bloodiest in American history. It involved over 20 countries of the United Nations that joined with the United States to save the South Koreans from annihilation and the tyranny of the communist countries, such as Russia and North Korea. On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed and today South Korea remains as a free nation and one of the strongest and wealthiest countries in Asia. This book is to help Americans understand what the war was all about and describe one soldier’s experience and opinion of the conflict.

Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1550050923

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I Remember Korea by Linda Granfield Pdf

A collection of first-person accounts from thirty-two men and women who served with the U.S. and Canadian forces during the Korean War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : OCLC:732686920

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Remembering the forgotten war by Anonim Pdf

Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1550050958

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I Remember Korea by Linda Granfield Pdf

While current events have focused the public's attention on Korea once again, many veterans of the conflict that occurred there half a century ago worry that their time spent fighting in the "Forgotten War" will not be remembered or understood unless their story is told. Award-winning nonfiction author Linda Granfield has collected the personal accounts of 32 men and women who served with the Canadian and U.S. forces in Korea during the years 1950-53 and has described the main events of the war. The veterans in this book represent different branches and aspects of the military, including medical, supplies, infantry, and naval. Their moving, sometimes graphic, recollections are illustrated with their own photographs. As commemorative ceremonies this year mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, attempting to understand the human face of war is more important than ever.

Author : Philip West,Suh Ji-moon,Donald Gregg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317461036

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Remembering the Forgotten War by Philip West,Suh Ji-moon,Donald Gregg Pdf

In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English of Korean poetry by Korean soldiers, and American soldier poetry on the war. There is a photographic essay on the war by combat journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Max Desfor. Another chapter includes and analyzes songs on the Korean War - Korean, American, and Chinese - that illuminate the many complex memories of the war. There is a discussion of Korean films on the war and a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories. More than any other nonfiction book on the war, this one shows us the human face of tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most especially Koreans. June 2000 was the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War; this moving volume is intended as a commemoration of it.

Author : George Odgers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809287730

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Remembering Korea Australians in the War of 1950-53 by George Odgers Pdf

Author : Allan Reed Millett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Korea
ISBN : IND:30000076428667

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Understanding is Better Than Remembering, the Korean War, 1945-1954 by Allan Reed Millett Pdf

Author : Hwa-bong Sin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1565911318

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The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea, 1950-1953 by Hwa-bong Sin Pdf

Author : Michael J. Devine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496236036

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The Korean War Remembered by Michael J. Devine Pdf

Michael J. Devine provides a fresh, wide-ranging, and international perspective on the contested memory of the 1950-1953 conflict that left the Korean Peninsula divided along a heavily fortified demilitarized zone. His work examines "theaters of memory," including literature, popular culture, public education efforts, monuments, and museums in the United States, China, and the two Koreas, to explain how contested memories have evolved over decades and how they continue to shape the domestic and foreign policies of the countries still involved in this unresolved struggle for dominance and legitimacy. The Korean War Remembered also engages with the revisionist school of historians who, influenced by America's long nightmare in Vietnam, consider the Korean War an unwise U.S. interference in a civil war that should have been left to the Koreans to decide for themselves. As a former Peace Corps volunteer to Korea, a two-time senior Fulbright lecturer at Korean universities, and former director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Devine offers the unique perspective of a scholar with half a century of close ties to Korea and the Korean American community, as well as practical experience in the management of historical institutions.

Author : Chang Wuk Kang,Chung Wha Lee,Hak Joo Choi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798744767174

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The Forgotten War of 1950 in Their Adolescence Remembered by Eight Octogenarians by Chang Wuk Kang,Chung Wha Lee,Hak Joo Choi Pdf

An anthology of vivid and elegiac remembrances of The Korean War in 1950-1953 as recalled by eight senior citizens who witnessed the tragedy and destruction of the so-called "Forgotten War." in their teenage. The Korean War has been forgotten, but it should not be. This book is dedicated to the memories of those who fought for freedom in the Korean War. History should be remembered. If not, human civilization cannot be survived.

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101971215

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On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides Pdf

"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic--and harrowing--operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea. Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances. Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, "Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : OSU:32435069571966

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Operations in Korea by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123062

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The Korean War in World History by William Stueck Pdf

" The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck’s introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war’s place within the history of the twentieth century. The Korean War had two very different faces. On one level the conflict was local, growing out of the internal conditions of Korea and fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country located far from Europe. The fighting pitted Korean against Korean in a struggle to determine the balance of political power within the country. Yet the war had a huge impact on the international politics of the Cold War. Combat threatened to extend well beyond the peninsula, potentially igniting another global conflagration and leaving in its wake a much escalated arms race between the Western and Eastern blocs. The dynamics of that division remain today, threatening international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Lloyd Gardner, Chen Jian, Allan R. Millett, Michael Schaller, and Kathryn Weathersby

Author : George Odgers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1863026797

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Remembering Korea by George Odgers Pdf