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The Korean War has been misunderstood and neglected. Hastings had the unique opportunity of interviewing Chinese and North Korean veterans, a source denied to most Western historians. He shows how Korea served as a prelude to Vietnam and why Americans were making the same mistakes 15 years later. One minor criticism: Hastings devotes much space to the operations of the British Commonwealth Division. The Commonwealth never had more than 20,000 men in Korea; the United States had well over 500,000. Recommended for most academic and public libraries; for a more extensive history buy Edwin P. Hoyt's trilogy, Pusan Perimeter, On to the Yalu, and Bloody Road to Panmunjon . BOMC and History Book Club alternates.Stanley Itkin, Hillside P.L., New Hyde Park, N.Y.
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"Brilliant and compelling" }London Review Of Books{. Part of the }Grand Strategy{ series.
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Having read this book after several others on the subject I found it a little disappointing. It's obvious that the author is British because a larger portion of the book is devoted to the British units than is probably justified considering they comprised only a small fraction of the UN forces. For a more insightful and comprehensive rendition of the events of the Korean War, I recommend "Korea: The Untold Story of the War" by Joseph C Goulden.
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This is the only book I have read on the Korean War. Another reviewer has suggested that this book is best viewed as a supplement to other, larger works. However, from the point of view of a novice, I found this book to be illuminating and interesting in its own right.
To me, this was an even-handed account of the war, trying to give at least some rationale to the actions of all the countries involved , including the Chinese (I was naturally disappointed, being Canadian, about the lack of information on our troops, but it was a relatively small complement).
All in all, I would call this an interesting analysis on this "forgotten" war. Recommended.
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This is an excellent starting point for a study of the Korean War (but certainly not a "sole source.") I grew up during the Viet Nam era and remember questioning how our government and military could have been so incompetent -- how so many lives could have been wasted for no apparent gain.
I purchased Max Hastings' book after realizing that I knew very little about the Korean Was (except what I had read in William Manchester's "American Caesar" or in the biograpies of Harry S Truman by David McCullough and Alonzo Hamby). After reading this work, I now find it difficult to understand how the US government could NOT have looked back on this first attempt at a "limited war" and their total misunderstanding of Asian cultures and avoided Viet Nam altogether.
Why did I find this book heartbreaking? The descriptions of the humiliating collapse and retreats of the US Army -- only five years after victory in WWII.
Why disturbing? Why has this war been "forgotten"? How could the lessons learned here not be applied to Viet Nam? Why has it taken so long for veterans of this conflict to receive (belated) recognition? And just how close did the US come to using nuclear weapons?
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An Excellent One Volume Compact History
Max Hastings has achieved one of the most difficult feats in writing a good survey history about a particular event. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Mai 2000 von Viking
Korean War Readers: Advance Cautiously
The interpretations of the Korean War are varied and numberalmost as many as the pages that have been devoted to the conflict'shistory. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Februar 2000 von Capt Keith Kopets, USMC
See yourself as others see you.
I thought it was a pretty good book. Hastings describes some of the American shortcomings as illuminated by declassified British military memos describing poor discipline during... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
A decent one volume history of the war
I read this book when it was first published in hardback and I found it to be well written and easy to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. April 1998 von Aussie Reader
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