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Korean War
- A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Explore how the Korean War started, the aftermath, and the events in between!
The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe.
The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots set foot on Korean soil. The heart of the conflict was a civil war between a population arbitrarily divided by colonization and the global geopolitics at the end of the Second World War.
Challenging the widely perpetuated Western narrative and getting to the core of the Korean conflict is no easy feat. From assumptions that the outbreak of war was a deliberate act of communist aggression, to the notion that Eisenhower and Truman's constant threats of atomic annihilation broke the Chinese and North Korean spirit and led to the signing of the armistice, everything needs to be dissected and reviewed on its own factual merit to fully understand the nature of the war.
This guide seeks to pull this narrative curtain and peek behind at the truth of the matter, tracing the history of the war back to the Japanese occupation and uncovering the root of Korean nationalism that stirred the nation into the frenzy of civil war in 1950.
Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:
- The Japanese Ascendency: 1910-1945
- A Korea Divided: The US Occupation of the South
- The Forging of the North Korean State
- First Blood: The Outbreak of War
- Strike Hard and Strike Fast: The US Retreat
- Bittersweet Victories: American Revival and China's Decision to Cross the Yalu
- How Do You Solve a Problem Like China?
- The Bloody Ceasefire and Looming Bomb
- The Legacy of the Korean War
- And more
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- Alfie
- 30-11-17
Well Done
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Extremely researched and well-documented. I like the way this author has presented history.
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- Balth
- 01-12-17
Impressive History Book
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This is an excellent writer that holds your attention. Each time I put the book down I could not wait to pick it up again.
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- Finlay
- 01-12-17
War History
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The first war America did not win or lose. The author goes into depth on how this war started, how it was fought and the men that served in this EPIC war that is overlooked by most historians. Hats off to all the men that served in the Korean War.
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- Arbella
- 01-12-17
Forgotton War
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This book is highly recommended for anyone trying to understand this "Forgotten War."
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- Felix
- 01-12-17
Job Well Done
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Author does an excellent job of providing an overall military and political history of the Korean War. His writing is clear and informative and the reader comes away with a strong understanding of the events that shaped this conflict. Hastings is more objective than many historians and presents an unbiased account of the decisions and mistakes that shaped the conflict.
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- Euan
- 01-12-17
Different But Very Informative
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This book gave me an entirely different perspective on the Korean War. It is nuanced, well-researched, and disturbing. Honestly, it never occurred to me to see the war from "the other side." This book gives you an understanding of the Japanese and their mostly southern Korean collaborators that I had no clue about. Highly recommended. One could wish for greater clarity and a more organized structure, but those can be overlooked.
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- Martha
- 01-12-17
One Volume Treat
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An excellent one-volume treatment of the 'forgotten war'.
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- Archie
- 30-11-17
Excellent
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If you only read one book about the Korean War this is that book. Max Hasting does an excellent job of providing fact based opinions and not sugar coating the failures of early parts of the war.
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- Luna
- 01-12-17
Informative
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Not much has been written about the Korean War and this was very informative and explained in detail what occurred. What wasn't included was the horrid treatment that the North Koreans perpetrated upon the South Korean peoples and American POW"S.
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- Alastaire
- 30-11-17
Korean War
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The Korean War is a thorough account of all aspects leading up to the war, during the war and after the war. A comprehensive analysis of a war that was poorly administered and greatly misjudged the roles Communist China and Russia played in it.
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