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Originally Posted by Red Falcon
This is one of the best books on the Korean War I have read. Not only do you get a comphrensive look at the miltary campaigns of this war the author also pulls back from the battlefied and puts the war in it's proper historical context as an outlier of WW2 and shows how the global political chess game that the United States and her Allies and the Soviet Union, China and there satellites were playing dictated how this war was fought. It also gives a good overview of effects of the war on global politics up to when the book was written in the mid 1960's. I consider this to be the seminal work on the Korean War even though we now have far more information from all three of the major players then T. R. Fehrenbach had when he wrote the book.
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I passed up on the book simply because I just don't have time to do non-work related reading, and it doesn't look like things will get better anytime soon. I have some time to listen to audiobooks, however, and wish there had been a Whispersync deal on this one. Maybe I'll find the audio (cheap) of it one of these days. One of the libraries with which I have borrowing privileges may have it--I need to check.
There is a very cheap (though not with the size of the markdown of the one above) ebook showing up in the markdown lists today that I would have liked to have had. Same issue keeping me from grabbing it. It is about these guys who gathered intelligence and operated radios behind enemy lines, on mountains in the jungles (Pacific Theater, of course), during WWII. WWII, and also the Korean War to a lesser extent, are interests of mine.