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Voices from the Korean War : Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers /
"Voices from the Korean War is a major contribution toward recording and making public first-person accounts of the Korean War, as told by officers, soldiers, and civilians. By collecting twenty previously unpublished stories, Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li show the true scope of the war in Kor...
| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One. The Korean war: a short history
- 1. Background and origins of the war
- 2. The opening phase: south toward Pusan, north to the Yalu
- 3. China enters the war
- 4. The Chosin reservoir retreat and advance to the north
- 5. Truce talks and prison riots
- 6. Trench warfare and peace
- Part Two. Many faces, one war
- 7. Getting to Korea
- 8. A mortar man's story
- 9. Escaping the trap
- 10. A North Korean officer's story
- 11. China's crouching dragon
- Part Three. Chosin accounts
- 12. The Chosin reservoir: a marine's story
- 13. The Chosin reservoir: a Chinese captain's story
- Part Four. On the front lines
- 14. The Hwachon reservoir fighting
- 15. Life on the MLR
- 16. A BAR man's story
- 17. First combat
- 18. Outpost Harry
- 19. A ROK lieutenant survives the bloody ridges
- 20. The Chinese go underground
- 21. North and south: a Korean youth serves in both armies
- Part Five. Behind the front lines
- 22. The "lighter" side of the war
- 23. A Korean housewife's story
- Part Six. POW camps: north and south
- 24. An american officer observes the Koje island uprising
- 25. One week of war, three years of captivity
- 26. A first sergeant's experience as a POW
- 27. Organizing the riots on Koje: Colonel Zhao's story
- Perspectives on the war.