Summary: A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Remember My Service Productions 2013

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Aikens-Nuñez, Talia

Summary: "Learn about Puerto Rico's 65th Regiment, one of the US Army's most decorated regiments. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez shares the history of these soldiers and the discrimination they faced as they served their country during the largest court martial of the Korean War"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2023

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Makos, Adam

Summary: "A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.com

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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Summary: In June of 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its neighbor to the south, beginning a see-saw war that would engulf the entire Korean Peninsula. For the next three years, the United Nations and the Communists would wage a bloody and brutal war. Though the Korean conflict is often referred to as the "Forgotten War", those who fought and sacrificed for freedom will never...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010

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Summary: "This game-changing war still resonates today with the US troop presence in South Korea and the nascent nuclear threat from the North. This collection of documentary footage chronicles the roots of the conflict as it blossomed into a protracted war that took a heavy toll in American blood and treasure. The immediacy of combat and major conflicts are brought vividly to life capturing the impact...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2008

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Summary: "After 60 years this game-changing war still resonates today with the US troop presence in South Korea and the nascent nuclear threat from the North. This collection of documentary footage chronicles the roots of the conflict as it blossomed into a protracted war that took a heavy toll in American blood and treasure. The immediacy of combat and major conflicts are brought vividly to life...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2013

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Cumings, Bruce

Summary: As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2010

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O'Donnell, Patrick K.

Summary: Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of hastily trained green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin Reservoir.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010

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Hanley, Charles J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2001

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Moore, Shannon Baker.

Contents: A bold plan -- A divided nation -- The United States steps in -- The horrors of war -- The tide turns -- The war moves north -- The Chinese intervene -- Shattered forces -- A long, bitter end.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO 2014

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Clark, Eugene Franklin.

Summary: Chronicles the two-week, covert, Korean War mission of then-Lieutenant Clark to obtain vital intelligence in the wake of firefights, night raids, hand-to-hand combat, and a small naval battle.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002

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Firme, Tom

Summary: "Learn about the history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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Cline, David P.

Summary: "Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021

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Drape, Joe

Summary: "New York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint -- part biography of a wartime adventurer Father Emil Kapaun, part detective story, and part journey of faith"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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Sloan, Bill

Summary: Sloan recounts the dramatic first three months of the Korean War, when South Korea was saved from Communism's conquest.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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Drury, Bob.

Summary: November, 1950. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is through the Toktong Pass, which will need to be held open at all costs. The mission fell to Captain William...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Russ, Martin

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fromm International 1999

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Summary: A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Remember My Service Productions, a division of StoryRock, Inc., in cooperation with Seoul Selection 2017

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Makos, Adam

Summary: "Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator 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. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015

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Brands, H. W.

Summary: "From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes 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. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

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Alexander, Bevin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hippocrene Books 1993

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Heinl, Robert Debs

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1968

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