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

A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping....

I am well aware that my view of the Korean War has no historical importance. Still, it is my view, and I want to...

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...