Kategoria BISAC: History >> Wars & Conflicts - Korean War

From the racetrack to the battlefield--dauntless, fearless, and exemplar of Semper Fi--she was Reckless, "pride of the Marines."

A Mongolian mare who was bred to be a racehorse, Ah-Chim-Hai, or Flame-of-the-Morning, belonged to a young boy named Kim-Huk-Moon. In order to pay for a prosthetic leg for his sister, Kim made the difficult decision to sell his beloved companion. Lieutenant Eric Pedersen purchased the bodacious mare and renamed her Reckless, for the Recoilless Rifles Platoon, Anti-Tank Division, of the 5th Marines she'd be...

This memoir is a recollection of events drawn from personal knowledge and experiences of the author while in the 1st gun squad, 3rd section of heavy 30 machine guns, Dog Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Regimental Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Korea from August 1951 through May, 1952.

He writes about those tough days.

He dedicates the memoir to all who served with him, in Dog and Charley Companies, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 35th RCT, 25th Infantry Division.

Especially in memory of those Killed in Action while serving with...

During his years as a POW in North Korea, "Doc" Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. Men who refused to eat starved; his children would clean their plates. Men who were weak died; his children would develop character. They would also learn to fear their father, the hero. In a memoir at once harrowing and painfully poignant, Catherine Madison tells the stories of two survivors of one man's war: a father who withstood a prison camp's unspeakable inhumanity and a daughter who withstood the residual cruelty that came home with him.

Doc...

American forces ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both...

American forces ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both...

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. Communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned elections and military personnel were deployed to Cheju. What began as a counterinsurgency operation targeting 350 local rebels resulted in the deaths of around 30,000 uninvolved civilians, 10 percent of the island's population.

Su-kyoung Hwang's Korea's Grievous War recounts the...

LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND is the credo of the U.S. Infantry.

When his platoon was ambushed, Dan crawled over a re-swept terrain to successfully retrieve the body of his sergeant. Decades later, at a reunion he learned that he had been cited for The Silver Star Medal, but the Jeep carrying the citation was blown up by mortar rounds.

Lt. Sidney (Col. retired), company commander was informed by artillery’s forward observer that Jesus Camacho was lying dead the day of the ambush. “Sid”, and two men crossed the Imjin River in daylight,...