Korean War Fiction

“If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?” With a thousand-yard stare, a haggard and bloodied marine looked incredulously at the war correspondent who asked him this question. In an answer that took “almost forever,” the marine responded, “Give me tomorrow." After nearly four months of continuous and bloody combat in Korea, such a wish seemed impossible.

In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea: an America with hundreds of permanent military bases abroad, a large standing army, and a permanent national security state at home, the ultimate result of a judicious and limited policy of containment evolving into an ongoing and seemingly endless global crusade.

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. 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.

The war ground into its third year and Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks now coordinated drone operations that shape battlefield outcomes across southern Ukraine. His team, eight Ukrainian specialists and one increasingly assimilated American, has evolved beyond its original mission into something the military doesn't quite have terminology for. They operate in gaps between established structures. They call themselves the Berkut Brigade with dark humor, fully aware they're not actually a special operations brigade. There are eight individuals who discovered that survival depends more on ...

This Kind of War is a monumental study of the conflict that began in June 1950. Successive generations of U.S. military officers have considered this book an indispensable part of their education. T. R. Fehrenbach's narrative brings to life the harrowing and bloody battles that were fought up and down the Korean Peninsula.

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.

Authors Robin Moore and Michael Lennon team up in this exciting new novel to tell the "fictionalized" stories of the men who have risked it all for the U.S.A.: the Green Berets. They take us from firefights on the Cambodian border during the Vietnam War to the streets and alleyways of Iraq today. They teach us what it was really like to patrol the streets of Mogadishu in the days of Black Hawk Down. They show the horror that was Saddam's Iraq during the first Gulf War. They take us to the moonscape that is Afghanistan in search of the Taliban. The Wars of the Green Berets continues the saga of Moore's classic The Green Berets, revealing more than a few tantalizing secrets and anecdotes for the first time.

Surviving Book I: The Adventures of John Harris - a Post - Apocalyptic Survival novel . John Harris is an ex-Special Forces soldier, survival expert and serious prepper, believing that one day the world as he knows it will cease to exist. When he and a group of friends stumble upon a drug-running operation with ties to rogue US Government officials while on a hunting trip. John saves a woman whom the cartel tried to kill, and they quickly form a bond. But drug-running cartels are the least of John’s worries when his worst fears are realized. A group of rogue government officials conspires...

In 1948, Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her. But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember.

They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they honorably answered the call. War - it was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boys and they came back - those who made it - as soldiers and professionals forged in the heat of battle....

In the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. The only fighting man to receive the Navy Cross five separate times - a military honor second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor - he was the epitome of a professional warrior.

SHORT STORIES II is the 3X Gold Award-winning collection of mysteries, thrillers and historical works from multi-award-winning author/artist Rich DiSilvio. Also included are three short narratives from his acclaimed Tales of Titans series. This exciting volume debuts two intriguing mysteries featuring the dapper and clever private eye, Armand Arnolfini, as he investigates baffling art-related crimes entailing forgery and theft, a spine-chilling tale about John Vagis, a moving and edifying tale of two airmen during the Korean War with an unexpected twist, historical narratives featuring such...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. "Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting...

November 1950. The Chosin Reservoir. The temperature is thirty below zero. The Chinese have sent 120,000 soldiers to kill them. The road south is seventy-eight miles long. Corporal Oren Lockhart counts everything. Rounds. Steps. Seconds between mortar impacts. Men still breathing after a firefight. He has been counting since Okinawa, since a hillside covered in bodies taught him that numbers are easier than feelings. For seven years, the counting has kept him alive. It has also kept him empty. Then a nineteen-year-old kid from Omaha named Fisk starts talking about a girl. He talks about her...

With much anticipation, Nick Simoneschi's first international thriller spy adventure book is about to be released. In the novel, Nick Taylor, a famous spy who is now retired, awakens unexpectedly in his New York flat after all quiet has been disturbed. Someone from Nick Taylor's previous career as a CIA agent started targeting him. An old friend named Martin De Simone rushed to the aid of his best friend, and the two of them embarked on a mission to track down the mastermind of the conspiracy that sought to control and profit from the drug cartels in Asia and South America. This is a ...

The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the US Marine Corps to be the Corps' finest hour. Fourteen Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses attest to the intensity of the battle.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.

A simple 3 step approach to mastering Korean in no time, even for absolute beginners.

These gripping historical thrillers, in a bundle, blend the thrill of military strategy with the intrigue of time travel. In the exciting first story, Pearl Harbor Victory: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Hawaii, December 1941, Robert Evans, a brilliant physicist and time traveler, embarks on a daring mission to alter the course of history. Armed with knowledge of the future, he travels back to 1941 to prevent one of America's darkest days—Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. As Evans navigates the tension-filled corridors of Washington and works with President Roosevelt, General ...

North Korea's deadliest weapon is sleeper agent Song Sun Young. Married with children and living the good life in New York City, she has waited seven years to activate the mission she was trained to do: infiltrate America's financial infrastructure. She prays the call from her handlers will never come, because she loves her husband and kids and affluent New York lifestyle. But the call does come. During volatile negotiations between the White House and Pyongyang, Song is hurled back into a reality she had hoped to leave behind forever.