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Title: Korean War by Max Hastings ISBN: 0-671-66834-X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Adding Understanding to a Confusing Time In American History
Comment: They call Korea the "forgotten war", even though over 33,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in this horrifically short three year span. The conflict for the Korean peninsula is most likely forgotten because it is the most misunderstood of all U.S. conflicts. It arose from the still smoldering ashes of World War II, at a time when many Americans were just nicely adjusting to a life free of strife and death. The people were not ready to make another commitment to bloodshed and most, simply looked away.
Max Hastings provides an excellent work discussing the complex history of the Korean War. He not only gives excellent detail and historical insight into battles and other facets of military history, but he also discusses the global ramifications of the war. For example, Hastings discusses the global political instability following World War II, and how this lead to the U.S. policy of containment.
Through out the book, Hastings provided equal parts political history and military history. Thus providing the reader with an in-depth understanding of the conflict as a whole. Hastings work comes highly recommended for any that thirst for a greater understanding of the 'forgotten war."
Rating: 4
Summary: HEARTBREAKING . . . AND DISTURBING
Comment: This is an excellent starting point for a study of the Korean War (but certainly not a "sole source.") I grew up during the Viet Nam era and remember questioning how our government and military could have been so incompetent -- how so many lives could have been wasted for no apparent gain.
I purchased Max Hastings' book after realizing that I knew very little about the Korean Was (except what I had read in William Manchester's "American Caesar" or in the biograpies of Harry S Truman by David McCullough and Alonzo Hamby). After reading this work, I now find it difficult to understand how the US government could NOT have looked back on this first attempt at a "limited war" and their total misunderstanding of Asian cultures and avoided Viet Nam altogether.
Why did I find this book heartbreaking? The descriptions of the humiliating collapse and retreats of the US Army -- only five years after victory in WWII.
Why disturbing? Why has this war been "forgotten"? How could the lessons learned here not be applied to Viet Nam? Why has it taken so long for veterans of this conflict to receive (belated) recognition? And just how close did the US come to using nuclear weapons?
Rating: 4
Summary: Compelling human element
Comment: Hastings stands out among the few Korean War authors as an historian with panache and a compelling style. His book tends to focus heavily on the British troops, but he still delivers an exciting overview of the war with surprising gems of information that other, more exhaustive texts left out. It is this human element - as well as a thrilling tone and delivery - that makes Hastings' book more than another history text. It delivers all the energy and immediacy of real men and women who endured this conflict while honoring the broader picture with relevant and detailed material. Rely on Hastings for a broad overview told in a thrilling style with that all-important human element. David R. Bannon, Ph.D.; author "Race Against Evil."
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Title: The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953 by Clay Blair Jr. ISBN: 1591140757 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam by Bruce, Jr. Palmer ISBN: 0813190363 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the Cia, Jcs, and Nsc by Amy B. Zegart ISBN: 080474131X Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0195030974 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: For the Common Defense by Peter Maslowski, Allan R. Millett ISBN: 0029215978 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 07 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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