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Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers
ISBN: 9780813191201 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from... "In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like t... |
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131,70 zł |
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Officers in Flight Suits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
ISBN: 9780814780381 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed virtually every major town and city in North Korea, demolished its entire crop irrigation system and killed close to one million civilians. The self-confidence and willingness to take risks which defined the lives of these men became a trademark of the fighter pilot culture, what author John Darrell Sherwood here refers... The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aer... |
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346,32 zł |
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Officers in Flight Suits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
ISBN: 9780814781104 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed virtually every major town and city in North Korea, demolished its entire crop irrigation system and killed close to one million civilians. The self-confidence and willingness to take risks which defined the lives of these men became a trademark of the fighter pilot culture, what author John Darrell Sherwood here refers... The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aer... |
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151,21 zł |
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Encyclopedia of the Korean War
ISBN: 9780816046829 / Angielski / Miękka / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although it has been largely neglected, the Korean War served as the backdrop for many firsts in military history: the first extensive use of the helicopter, the first battles between jet aircraft, and the first time two world powers - the United States and China - met on a battlefield since World War II. A 1953 armistice halted the fighting, yet the war technically continues today, as North and South Korea remain divided.
Although it has been largely neglected, the Korean War served as the backdrop for many firsts in military history: the first extensive use of the heli...
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121,89 zł |
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Outpost Kelly: A Tanker's Story
ISBN: 9780817353414 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks. Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for an infantry battalion on the front, he eventually found himself in the midst of intense fighting for a relatively unknown and unimportant hill, code named Outpost Kelly.Those four days of battle against Chinese forces form the heart of this memoir, which is unique in its focus on the hill fighting that dominated two thirds of the Korean War. Trained to take advantage of his tanks mobility, his orders to provide direct fire support for advancing infantry...
In the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks. Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for an infantr...
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97,50 zł |
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The Korean War: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780824044459 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers key topics on the Korean War that range from the origins of the conflict, ground, naval and air operations, and tactical planning to the Truman-MacArthur face-off, the POW issue, and armistice negotiations. The text includes articles on civilian and military leaders.
Covers key topics on the Korean War that range from the origins of the conflict, ground, naval and air operations, and tactical planning to the Truman...
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1073,11 zł |
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A Foxhole View : Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans
ISBN: 9780824826109 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Foxhole View is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the infantry--told in the distinctive voices of Hawaii's soldiers.
A Foxhole View is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the inf...
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92,63 zł |
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The Korean War 1950 53
ISBN: 9780850456851 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will help you get a vivid picture of the uniforms and general appearance of the men fighting between 1950-53 during the Korean War.
This book will help you get a vivid picture of the uniforms and general appearance of the men fighting between 1950-53 during the Korean War.
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66,70 zł |
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Corpsmen: Letters from Korea
ISBN: 9780873386692 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Corpsmen: Letters from Korea, the Chappell twins gathered together their letters to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. From boot camp to Bethesda Naval Hospital and on the Fleet Marine Force training and eventually the front line, and then in Indochina, the brothers kept in contact with their family in Ohio, offering firsthand narratives of their adventures. This book captures the lives of corpsmen serving in wartime. The concerns, laughter, homesickness, and fears of the Chapell twins come through vividly in their letters,...
In Corpsmen: Letters from Korea, the Chappell twins gathered together their letters to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Ma...
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68,24 zł |
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And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American POW in North Korea
ISBN: 9780873387507 / Angielski / Twarda / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along with three others, was captured. During a month-long march to the POW camp the Americans frequently came under friendly fire. Surviving the march paled in comparison to what the captured soldiers had to endure at Camp-5-Pyokdong. Frostbite, dysentery, jaundice, and... A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. R... |
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97,50 zł |
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Remembering Korea 1950: A Boy Soldier's Story
ISBN: 9780874174823 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the North Korean army invaded South Korea in 1950, H.K. Shin was a 16-year-old high-school student. He ended up 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.
When the North Korean army invaded South Korea in 1950, H.K. Shin was a 16-year-old high-school student. He ended up alone in Pusan, a refugee without...
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77,99 zł |
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Forgotten Heroes: 131 Men of the Korean War Awarded the Medal of Honor 1950-1953
ISBN: 9780887408076 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forgotten Heroes contains all 131 Medal of Honor citations. Also included are the official communiques for that day and newspaper accounts of various battles.
Forgotten Heroes contains all 131 Medal of Honor citations. Also included are the official communiques for that day and newspaper accounts of various ...
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118,04 zł |
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East of Chosin, 2: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950
ISBN: 9780890964651 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In November, 1950, with the highly successful Inchon Landing behind him, Gen. Douglas MacArthur planned the last major offensive of what was to be a brief "conflict": the drive that would push the North Koreans across the Yalu River into Manchuria. In northern Korea, US forces assembled at Chosin Reservoir to cut behind the North Korean forces blocking the planned march to Manchuria. Roy E. Appleman, noted historian of the Korean conflict, describes the tragic fate of the troops of the 31st Regimental Combat Team which fought this engagement and presents a thorough analysis of the physical...
In November, 1950, with the highly successful Inchon Landing behind him, Gen. Douglas MacArthur planned the last major offensive of what was to be a b...
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87,75 zł |
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With a Black Platoon in Combat: A Year in Korea
ISBN: 9780890965269 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first year of the Korean conflict was a dark and humiliating period for many of the troops who fought there. Against a backdrop of U.S. political indecision and reduced military capability, American soldiers fought a dedicated and numerically strong enemy force that was determined to overrun South Korea. One of these units, the segregated 24th Infantry Regiment, was made up of black soldiers, commanded for the most part by white officers. Lyle Rishell, an infantry platoon leader, led a black platoon of Able Company in that regiment. This book tells the dramatic, often frustrating,...
The first year of the Korean conflict was a dark and humiliating period for many of the troops who fought there. Against a backdrop of U.S. political ...
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121,89 zł |
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From the Hudson to the Yalu: West Point '49 in the Korean War
ISBN: 9780890965542 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and national complacency. A year later these young officers were plunged into a cruel and unexpected war and were forced to compensate, by valor and leadership, for the nation's unpreparedness. Some called it a U.N. Police Action, but to the 2nd lieutenants fighting as platoon leaders, forward observers, and jet pilots, it was war to the fullest.
Men of '49 served along the Naktong Perimeter, landed at Inchon, flew combat missions against... They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and ...
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117,02 zł |
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Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950
ISBN: 9780890969946 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,02 zł |
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History of United States Naval Operations: Korea
ISBN: 9780898756753 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,84 zł |
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The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea
ISBN: 9780938021841 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of an ordeal sustained by the flesh and blood of United Nations soldiers, American Soldiers, Republic of Korea soldiers, and the innocent and defenseless refugees. Superior photos, maps, casualty list, military symbols, weapons glossary, and the roster of the 7th US Cavalry Association.
This is the story of an ordeal sustained by the flesh and blood of United Nations soldiers, American Soldiers, Republic of Korea soldiers, and the inn...
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103,86 zł |
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Fire Mission!: The Story of the 213th Field Artillery Battalion in Korea 1951-1954
ISBN: 9781403390257 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,84 zł |
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Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War
ISBN: 9781410220165 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in World War II. In that earlier, larger war, victory over Japan came after two atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in Korea five years later, the United States limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the...
Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who...
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73,33 zł |
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