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Cold Days in Hell : American POWs in Korea /

Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Latham, William C. (William Clark), 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Notes; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Korean Peninsula; Introduction; 1. The Summer Soldiers; Pusan Perimeter; 2. The Tide Turns; Photograph gallery; 3. The Death March; Tiger Death March; 4. The Warning; Battle of Unsan; 5. Home by Christmas; Chongchon River; 6. The Reservoir; Chosin Reservoir; 7. The Deadly Winter; 8. Spring 1951; 9. The Pilots' War; 10. Mutual Suspicion; 11. The Pawns; 12. Freedom and Recrimination; Appendix; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.