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Korean War
Korean War | Max Hastings
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It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes 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 200 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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Just found on hoopla the audio book of M.A.S.H ! 🏥🚑

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I decided to read this because of how little I knew about this war, a war in which my country participated and which I personally knew veterans from. I found this to be a good overview by a well respected British military historian, but I found myself wanting more details of the last year and a half which was characterised by attrition fighting in the hills. His story of British understatement in extremis is amusing and tragic at the same time.