Battle For Korea: A History Of The Korean Conflict (Anniversary); Author: Dvorchak, Robert J.; Paperback

Author: Dvorchak, Robert J.
Edition #50 ~ Anniversary Edition; Paperback; Maps
317 pages
Published: March 2000
Combined Publishing
ISBN: 1580970303
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Battle for Korea is a look at one of the most controversial and hard fought military actions of the United States, the Korean War. Though called a police action, some 2,000,000 lives werelost in the conflict, including 33,000 Americans. The writers and photographers of the American press were on the front lines during the war's most grueling battles to report the fighting to the people on the home front. From the brilliant landing at Inchon, to the desperate breakout at Chosin, to the bloody trench warfare at places like Heartbreak Ridge, from the strategies of the generals to the struggles of the soldiers, these are stories that need to be told.Battle for Korea is heavily illustrated with 304 photographs taken directly from original Associated Press negatives, most of them