Korean War
Max Hastings
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastingspreeminent military historiantakes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two-hundred vetsincluding the ChineseHastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at homethe strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradleyand shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.
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