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| The Korean War 1950-53 (Men-at-Arms)
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Author: Nigel Thomas
Artist: Mike Chappell
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: 1986-03-27
ISBN-10: 0850456851
ISBN-13: 9780850456851
List Price: $15.95
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At 4am on Sunday 25 June 1950 powerful North Korean forces invaded South Korea, advancing down the Uijongbu Corridor towards the Southern Capital of Seoul. South Korean troops resisted bravely, but were crushed by overwhelming Northern superiority. Later that day the United Nations Security Council condemned the aggression, and on 7 July appointed US General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to command UN forces which would be sent to save South Korea. Nigel Thomas and Peter Abbott explore the history of this conflict, which pitted UN forces against the People's Republic of China in a resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Good coverage of the subject
| Customer Rating: | This book provides exactly what a frequent reader of the Osprey Men-at-Arms series would expect to see in a book about the Korean War. Within the tight constraints of the format, the various ground combatants and the ground war are described nicely. Air and naval aspects of the war are not covered in the book.
My only complaint with the book is that the illustrator does a nice job with uniforms and equipment but is less capable with the human form and faces. It's not a major issue, but that is the sort of thing that separates 4 star ratings from 5 star ratings. |
Useful Briefing for the Curious
| Customer Rating: | There has been a lot of hoopla in recent years about the "Forgotten War" referring to the Korean War. This war was the first war fought by the forces of the West against the surrogate forces of the Red East. After a year of back and forth open mechanized warfare it settled down into a heavily fortified trench war similar to the Western Front of WW I.
It is also vilified and thought of as the first war the U.S. lost and there was a lot of political mud slinging at home about the causes and conduct of the war. But cool heads prevailed and it did not turn out to be act one of WW III. Everyone involved finally signed an armistice which continues to this day and though there have been border raids and incidents, general war has been avoided. While the south has prospered as part of the western world economic system the north still hunkers down menacingly behind its borders.
When I served it was just two plus years after the armistice and the Army was full of veterans of both WW II and Korea. The experience was remembered and contributed to some of the missteps later in Vietnam. |
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