Remembering Korea 1950 1953

Author : H. K. Shin
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874175259
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Korea 1950 written by H. K. Shin and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyung K. Shin was sixteen years old when the North Korean army invaded South Korea in June 1950. Fleeing his home, Shin soon found himself alone in Pusan, a refugee without resources or any means of support. To save himself from destitution, he lied about his age and volunteered for service in the South Korean army. Shin’s account of the months that followed is a moving record of the Korean War from the perspective of an ordinary ROK soldier. He recounts his hasty training and subsequent experiences as a battlefield soldier in North Korea, as a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp, and as a refugee again in the massive flight of civilians and ROK military personnel retreating before the onslaught of the Chinese invasion. Through it all, Shin struggles to retain his humanity and pursue his education. In the process, the naïve schoolboy becomes a man. Today, Hyung K. Shin is an internationally respected chemist, but in the pages of this memoir he carries us back to Korea during a pivotal moment in that country’s history. This is the first account in English that describes the war from the perspective of a Korean who lived through and fought in it. Shin’s detailed and lively narrative is a stirring monument to the survival of human decency and kindness in the midst of terror, cruelty, despair, and the destruction of a proud nation.

Author : Dennis J Ottley
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480961795
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) written by Dennis J Ottley and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) By Dennis J. Ottley Remembering (Korea: 1950-1953) is the author’s memoir. This book describes his involvement in Korea during the Korean War and points out the reasoning behind the conflict. Over the years, the Korean War has been considered “The Forgotten War” by many. At one time, President Harry S. Truman referred to it as a “Police Action,” but 5,720,000 Americans who served in Korean have never forgotten what it was about and that it was much more than just a “Police Action.” They understand that it was an all-out war, and one of the bloodiest in American history. It involved over 20 countries of the United Nations that joined with the United States to save the South Koreans from annihilation and the tyranny of the communist countries, such as Russia and North Korea. On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed and today South Korea remains as a free nation and one of the strongest and wealthiest countries in Asia. This book is to help Americans understand what the war was all about and describe one soldier’s experience and opinion of the conflict.

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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the forgotten war written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9781550050950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Remember Korea written by Linda Granfield and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While current events have focused the public's attention on Korea once again, many veterans of the conflict that occurred there half a century ago worry that their time spent fighting in the "Forgotten War" will not be remembered or understood unless their story is told. Award-winning nonfiction author Linda Granfield has collected the personal accounts of 32 men and women who served with the Canadian and U.S. forces in Korea during the years 1950-53 and has described the main events of the war. The veterans in this book represent different branches and aspects of the military, including medical, supplies, infantry, and naval. Their moving, sometimes graphic, recollections are illustrated with their own photographs. As commemorative ceremonies this year mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, attempting to understand the human face of war is more important than ever.

Author : Bob Orrick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503536238
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Fought Valiantly for Their Country’S Survival written by Bob Orrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Fought Valiantly for Their Countrys Survival contains the personal accounts of South Korean soldiers and marines who fought for the survival of their country following the North Korean sneak attack on South Korea that was the start of the Korean War 25 June 195027 July 1953. Inasmuch as a ceasefire or cessation of hostilities was signed at Panmunjom on 27 July 1953 and the shooting stopped, the Korean War remains very much in the forefront of world news as a declaration of peace has not been signed as the 2.5-mile wide demilitarized zone between the two Koreas attests in stark, menacing evidence. The accounts that are contained within this book are real and reveal in clear prose the devastation, the pain, the agony, the danger, the fear, the betrayal, distress, wounds, death, turmoil, separation, and love of family that was the constant with these South Koreans as they stood in the forefront and stopped the evil known as communism and set in place the seed that culminated in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall a few decades later. The South Koreans who fought valiantly during the thirty-seven-month Korean War, stopped the spread of communism in the Far East. Truly, theirs was a heroic stand that the free world can applaud today.

Author : Clay Blair
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten War written by Clay Blair and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kprean War in detail.

Author : Hwa-bong Sin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565911314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea, 1950-1953 written by Hwa-bong Sin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236041
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean War Remembered written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operations in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chang Wuk Kang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten War of 1950 in Their Adolescence Remembered by Eight Octogenarians written by Chang Wuk Kang and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of vivid and elegiac remembrances of The Korean War in 1950-1953 as recalled by eight senior citizens who witnessed the tragedy and destruction of the so-called "Forgotten War." in their teenage. The Korean War has been forgotten, but it should not be. This book is dedicated to the memories of those who fought for freedom in the Korean War. History should be remembered. If not, human civilization cannot be survived.