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Pub. Date
2007
Description
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."—-The New York Times
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam...
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam...
Author
Description
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
Author
Series
Corps volume 10
Description
In the fall of 1950, the Marines make a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon. While MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering works desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman.
9) Under fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
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 such veterans as Fleming Pickering to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parellel, in a thrilling novel of adventure set in 1950.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
17) The majors
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 3
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
An elite delegation of American soldiers are secretly sent to Vietnam to offer the French military assistance.
18) Queen & country
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
20) The surrendered
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Description
Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at an orphanage, Korean orphan June Han and former GI Hector Brennan are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past.
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