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1) Under fire
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, McCoy is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel. .
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir-the defining moment of the Korean War. There he confronts an enemy force far beyond the scope of his imagining, but the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
From...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable, and an...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II --- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
7) Home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
145 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
Author
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
New edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The revival of a classic work of journalism which exposes the gap between the official story and reality
Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever—and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and “forgotten” even in its own time. At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist I.F. Stone released The Hidden History of the Korean War, a courageous work of investigative journalism...
10) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint -- part biography of a wartime adventurer Father Emil Kapaun, part detective story, and part journey of faith.