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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 525 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable, and an enemy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
576 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Reference information paper volume 103
Publisher
National Archives and Records Administration
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xi, 249 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
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.)
Language
English
Description
A retrospective look at the Korean War and the years of prosperity that followed.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jean Gilkyson, pregnant when her husband was killed, is raising their daughter, Griff, in an Iowa trailer house with yet another brutal boyfriend, when she realizes this can't go on. But the only refuge available is a town in Wyoming where her loved ones are dead and her father-in-law wishes she was too. For a decade he has blamed her for his son's death, choosing to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend otherwise couldn't survive....
12) The naked tree
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Sunwood Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Brother's keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1952, bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood, a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe ... In the mill town at the foot of the mountains--a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car...
19) The waiting
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from...
Author
Language
English
Description
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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