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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-a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on exclusive author interviews, unpublished memoirs, and oral histories, the book recounts the most dramatic and...
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Remember My Service Productions, a division of StoryRock, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm + 1 videodisc (approximately 60 minutes : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
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English
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A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.
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Reference information paper volume 103
Publisher
National Archives and Records Administration
Pub. Date
2003
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xi, 249 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for his intense devotion to the soldiers whom he called "my boys," Kapaun became the most decorated chaplain in US military history, awarded a Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Legion of Merit. But Father Kapaun's leadership,...
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English
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Douglas MacArthur famously said there is no substitute for victory… As a United States general, he had an unparalleled genius for military strategy, and it was under his leadership that Japan was rebuilt into a democratic ally after World War II. But MacArthur carried out his zero-sum philosophy both on and off the battlefield. During the Korean War, in defiance of President Harry S. Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he pushed for an aggressive...
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Sunwood Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Hershey is the heart warming illustrated story of a true American, the son of Japanese immigrants, who served his country proudly despite the discrimination against Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. -- Back cover.
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English
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They came from one street, but death found them in many places...in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky. One died going over a fence during the greatest paratrooper assault in history. Another fell in the biggest battle of World War II. Yet another, riddled with bullets in an audacious act of heroism during a decisive onslaught a world, and a war, away. All came from a single street...
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Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the story of Tibor Teddy Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... After being captured by Nazis and living through a year in the Mauthausen concentration camp, young Hungarian immigrant Tibor Rubin arrived in America, penniless and barely speaking English. In 1950, he volunteered for service...
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