Best Korean War Personal Narratives Books
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1. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Author: by Colonel David H. Hackworth
Published at: Touchstone (April 15, 1990)
ISBN: 978-0671695347
Called everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism. From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend.
In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation. From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s story is that of an exemplary patriot, played out against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the American military.
It is also a stunning indictment of the Pentagon’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war.
2. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage: The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them
Author: by Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Published at: University Press of Mississippi (February 19, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1496822796
The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People’s Republic of China, based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots who flew these dangerous missions.
In 1954 the number of flights expanded, and the highly classified SENSINT program was born. Soon, American RB-45C, RB-47E/H, RF-100s, and various versions of the RB-57 were in the air on an almost constant basis, providing the president and military leadership with hard facts about enemy capabilities and intentions.
Eventually the SENSINT program was replaced by the high-flying U-2 spy plane. The U-2 overflights removed the mysteries of Soviet military power. These flights remained active until 1960 when a U-2 was shot down by Russian missiles, leading to the end of the program.
3. About Face: Odyssey of an American Warrior
Author: by David H. Hackworth
Published at: Simon & Schuster; First Edition (March 1, 1989)
ISBN: 978-0671526924
Called everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism. From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend.
In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation. From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s story is that of an exemplary patriot, played out against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the American military.
It is also a stunning indictment of the Pentagon’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war.
4. The US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950-1951
Author: by Master Sergeant (Ret.) Edward L. Posey
Published at: Savas Beatie; Reprint edition (January 24, 2011)
ISBN: 978-1611210774
Finalist, 2009, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The company’s life span covered ten months, from selection and training through a seven-month combat deployment in Korea, after which the unit was deactivated.
The 2nd and 4th Rangers were among the units initially assigned to the Eighth Army and were considered to be combat ready. The 2nd Ranger Company battled North Korean and Communist Chinese Forces near Tangyang, Majori-ri, and Chechon. The 2nd Ranger Company conducted the first airborne assault in Ranger history near the town of Munsan-ni and executed the heroic attack and defense of Hill 581.
The men of the 2nd Ranger Company demonstrated courage, served with honor, and achieved a magnificent combat record. Edward Posey’s The US Army’s First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korea War, 1950-1951 is the first complete history of this elite all-volunteer unit whose members were drawn from the 3rd Battalion of the 505th Airborne Infantry Regiment and the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion.
5. Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir
Author: by Joseph R. Owen
Published at: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (August 30, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0804116978
“A MUST READ …This book [is] one of the best on that war in Korea…. A wonderful account of common, decent men in desperate action.”-LeatherneckDuring the early, uncertain days of the Korean War, World War II veteran and company lieutenant Joe Owen saw firsthand how the hastily assembled mix of some two hundred regulars and raw reservists hardened into a superb Marine rifle company known as Baker-One-Seven.
As comrades fell wounded and dead around them on the frozen slopes above Korea’s infamous Chosin Reservoir, Baker-One-Seven’s Marines triumphed against the relentless human-wave assaults of Chinese regulars and took part in the breakout that destroyed six to eight divisions of Chinese regulars.
COLDER THAN HELL paints a vivid, frightening portrait of one of the most horrific infantry battles ever waged.”Thoroughly gripping … The Chosin action is justly called epical; Lieutenant Owen tells the tale of the men who made it so.”-Booklist
6. Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
Author: by David H. Hackworth
Published at: Rugged Land; 1st edition (May 1, 2002)
ISBN: 978-1590710029
Colonel David H.Hackworth, one of America’s most decorated soldiers, lays bare his most daring and legendary tour of duty. 1966With a full year of Vietnam combat and five months of in-country intense after-action analysis under his pistol belt, Hackworth pens the classic tactical handbook the Vietnam Primer with military historian Samuel Marshall.
In a radical shift from the World War II-era tactics then employed in Vietnam, Hackworth stresses the necessity of using disciplined, small units of well-trained men to best fight the hit-and-run warfare of the elusive Viet Cong. “Out G’ing the G,” he called his tactics.
1969Hackworth’s expertise lands him back in Vietnam. The Army’s message is clear-put up, or shut up. Given the “hopeless,” morale-drained 4/39th-an infantry battalion of poorly led draftees with one of the Army’s worst casualty rates-Hackworth leads from up front and finds the best in every one of his grunts.
Together, they take a page from the VC, write their own book, and become the meanest in the Mekong Delta-the Hardcore Recondos.2002With the U.S. Again facing elusive insurgent foes-and the hit-and-run tactics of the international terror networks we’re presently up against-the 4/39th Hardcore Battalion’s successes provide hard-won lessons-learned that are more applicable now than ever.
7. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (Volume 2) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
Author: by Roy E. Appleman
Published at: Texas A&M University Press (September 1, 1990)
ISBN: 978-0890964651
In November, 1950, with the highly successful Inchon Landing behind him, Gen. Douglas MacArthur planned the last major offensive of what was to be a brief “conflict”: the drive that would push the North Koreans across the Yalu River into Manchuria.
In northern Korea, US forces assembled at Chosin Reservoir to cut behind the North Korean forces blocking the planned march to Manchuria.Roy E. Appleman, noted historian of the Korean conflict, describes the tragic fate of the troops of the 31st Regimental Combat Team which fought this engagement and presents a thorough analysis of the physical conditions, attitudes, and command decisions that doomed them.
8. Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I
Author: by Hervey Allen
Published at: University of Nebraska Press; Reissue edition (June 1, 2003)
ISBN: 978-0803259478
Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen’s Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the Twenty-eighth Division saw extensive action on the Western Front.
The story begins with Lieutenant Allen and his men marching inland from the French coast and ends with their participation in the disastrous battle for the village of Fismette. Allen was a talented observer, and the men with whom he served emerge as well-rounded characters against the horrific backdrop of the war.
As a historical document, Toward the Flame is significant for its highly detailed account of the controversial military action at Fismette. At the same time, it easily stands as a work of literature. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, Allen employs the novelist’s powers of description to create a harrowing portrait of coalition war at its worst.
9. MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea
Author: by Otto F. Apel M.D.
Published at: University Press of Kentucky; 1st edition (August 27, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0813120706
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea.
Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland.
There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed “Bedcheck Charlie,” who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series.
He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women’s shower was “accidentally” blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care.
10. The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War
Author: by Eugene Franklin Clark
Published at: Putnam Adult; First Edition (May 13, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0399148712
An account based on the experiences of a naval lieutenant who witnessed a covert Korean War mission firsthand discusses his two-week assignment to obtain vital intelligence in the wake of firefights, night raids, hand-to-hand combat, and a small naval battle.
50,000 first printing.
11. Dark Horse Six: A Memoir of the Korean War, 1950-1951
Author: by Robert D Taplett
Published at: Phillips Publications; F First Edition (January 1, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0932572424
“For two miserable weeks, with temperatures hovering between 20 and 40 degrees below zero, the outnumbered allied ground troops held off a Chinese army that had been ordered to annihilate them. When the running fight ended on Dec. 11 (1950) nearly 7,000 allied troops had been killed or wounded, and many of the casualties were victims of frostbite.
The Chinese suffered an estimated 30,000 casualties. Historically, only the battle of the Alamo and Custer’s Last Stand matched such seemingly hopeless odds. Like the Alamo, Chosin produced its own famous battle cry. According to a Time magazine account From Dec.
18, 1950, Major Gen. Oliver P. Smith, Commander of the First Marine Division, (the very same Marine Division fighting in Iraq today), set the tone for the battle by snapping, “Retreat, hell! We’re not retreating, were just advancing in a different direction!” Dark Horse Six, is the combat memoir of Colonel Robert D.Taplett.
He was the commander of one of the USMC’s most famed battalions, the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, during the first year of fighting in Korea. His battalion’s radio call sign during the bitter fighting against the Chinese was Dark Horse.
12. Gunner's Glory: Untold Stories of Marine Machine Gunners
Author: by Johnnie M. Clark
Published at: Presidio Press; Third printing edition (November 23, 2004)
ISBN: 978-0345463890
They were warriors, trained to fight, dedicated to their country, and determined to win. At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they were given the go-ahead to surrender.
Near the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, as the mercury dropped to twenty below, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and cut off by the enemy. The outlook seemed so bleak that many in Washington had privately written off the men.
But surrender is not part of a Marine’s vocabulary. Gunner’s Glory contains true stories of these and other tough battles in the Pacific, in Korea, and in Vietnam, recounted by the machine gunners who fought them. Bloody, wounded, sometimes barely alive, they stayed with their guns, delivering a stream of firepower that often turned defeat into victoryand always made them the enemy’s first target.
13. Learning Korean Hangeul for beginners: Hangul writing practice workbook
Author: by Jai Hong Ahn
Published at: Independently published (January 16, 2021)
ISBN: 979-8595680448
This book is to teach how to write Korean Alphabet, Hangeul(or Hangul) for beginners Guides how do write each Hangeul(Hangul) letter in correct order Provides templates to practice writing Hangeul(Hangul) Guides how to write Consonant in correct order Guides how to write Vowel in correct order Guides how to write combination of various Consonant and Vowel Table of content is as below 1.Consonant 2~3p 2.Vowel 4~5p 3.
Consonant + Vowel () 6~8p 4. Various Consonant + Vowel 9~36p 5. Consonant Practice Sheet 37~49p 6. Vowel Practice Sheet 50~59P 7. Consonant + Vowel () Practice Sheet 60~73p 8. Example Word Practice Sheet 74~100p
14. The American Military: A Narrative History
Author: by Brad D. Lookingbill
Published at: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (January 7, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1444337365
The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Presents a chronological account of American military history from clashes between militias and Native Americans to 21st-century operations in Afghanistan and Iraq Features personal vignettes to put a human face on armed conflict Addresses patterns of national service, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the advent of all-volunteer forces Puts events in historical context, and considers cultural, social, political, economic, and technological developments
15. Night Fighters over Korea
Author: by G. G. O'Rourke
Published at: Naval Institute Press; 2nd edition (October 1, 1998)
ISBN: 978-1557506535
The Korean War is well known for its daytime battles between the American Sabrejets and Communist MiGs over North Korea, yet few Americans have heard of the wild night skirmishes between the U.S. Navy-Marine Skyknights and their Chinese and Soviet adversaries.
Readers of this story will soon come to realize that in that air war the foe was more often the blackness of night than enemy airmen. The Navy night fighters – jet-powered F3Ds – chronicled here were a detachment of Composite Squadron 4 (VC-4) known as “The Nightcappers”. Lt. G.G.
O’Rourke led the small team of Skyknights on board the USS Lake Champlain in the Korean War. With no ground attack capability, O’Rourke’s intrepid band of frustrated night fighters found themselves unloved, unwanted, and exiled ashore to a forward air base in South Korea.
There, they lived and fought with Marine Night Fighter Squadron 513 (VMF[N]-513) and became the U.S. Navy’s only jet night fighter squadron to see combat in the war. This landmark contribution describes in detail the development and training of Navy night fighters after World War II, their deployment to Korea, and their nightly encounters with MiGs and monsoon weather.
