Korean War

Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash in the Korean War relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege....

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country's most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves....

Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that....

Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

It was the first war we could not win....

Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative story of a marine rifle company in the uncertain, early days of the Korean War...

For the first time, there was one complete record of what happened to the army troops trapped east of the Chosin Reservoir during the first wintry blast of the Korean War....

The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations....

A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.

In his introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea....

Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and society of a deeply divided region....

As an early crisis of the Cold War, the Korean War set important precedents for how conflicts would be handled during this era. It has also shaped Korea’s history for more than half a century....

Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues....

Omar Nelson Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer so honored after World War II. This new biography gives an account of Bradley’s formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life....

From the racetracks of Seoul to the battlegrounds of the Korean War, Reckless was a horse whose strength, tenacity, and relentless spirit made her a hero among a regiment of US Marines....

Prisoner of Lies is the remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years....

This is the complete and captivating account of how a would-be Korean racehorse became one of the greatest Marine Corps wartime heroes....

Blaine Harden returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the US role in the Korean War and its legacy....

Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States....

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months....

On Hallowed Ground is the riveting story of this epic battle. Drawing on previously classified documents, interviews, and letters from survivors, author Bill McWilliams details the strategy and tactics behind the conflict and pays stirring tribute to the heroic soldiers....

By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni....

Explore the brutal realities and tactical decisions that shaped the Korean War.