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Title: The Battle for Pusan by Addison Terry, Addison Terry ISBN: 0-89141-701-X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Battle for Pusan
Comment: Major Terry's personal account of his experience in the Korean "Police Action" put color into the black and white images
many "baby-boomers" have of this war. His descriptive prose (written in the vernacular of the 50's) provides the reader with a visceral feeling of the pain and simple pleasures experienced by combat troops. This book is user-friendly with it's explanation, use and application of military jargon for readers who did not serve in the armed forces.
Rating: 5
Summary: A concise, moving story...
Comment: ...that will, hopefully, serve to remind us of the committed men and women who fought and died during that awful "forgotten war" on that dirty little peninsula 50 years ago. As the child of a "Pusan Commando," I have often wondered about the war that my father was so reluctant to speak of. Mr. Terry vividly illustrates that war, and wastes no time writing eulogies or second-guessing the policies of the time. He tells of the events, and little more, in a concise manner reminiscent of Hemingway, with a down-home ease and matter-of-fact manner that is sure to drawn in the reader. This book is for the Korean War what THE LONGEST DAY was for WWII. A must read for anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: What if we didn't fly in Army troops and Pusan fell?
Comment: This first-hand account begs the ultimate question facing us today:
What if we hadn't flown in the so-called "unprepared and un-equipped Army troops from Japan to hold the Pusan perimeter? What if the ports were mined, our ships blocked by fast patrol boats and thousands of miles away? What if we had waited for ships to arrive?
The answer is the North Koreans would have over-ran the South and the U.S. would have accepted this as fait accompli. Look what we did when the Chinese Communists ran the Nationalist Chinese off to the island of Taiwan a few years earlier in 1949.
Today, this is why we have a U.S. Army 2d Infantry Division and an 8th Army Headquarters on the ground in Korea today--so America is not interdicted and forced to "cut and run" either strategically or on the battlefield where BOTH Soldiers and marines oriented to fighting a linear war had to retreat or else be encircled and annihilated by superior numbers of enemy swarming across rugged mountain/hill terrain. Today, we will stand at fight, just like the gallant men of the first Korean War did. South Korea would have been lost to Communism had it not been for U.S. Army Soldiers like Addison Terry "going as is when he was called". It was men like him who then held the Pusan perimeter for weeks so we could assemble the ships together to do General MacArthur's Inchon maneuver warfare masterpiece, cutting off the enemy deep in their own rear and retaking he capital of Seoul. However, we will not have weeks and months again in the future to do this amphibious stunt again.
The lesson of this book is that we have to have AIR-delivered U.S. Army forces ready NOW to fly to the aid of U.S. Army and AF forces already on the ground "holding the perimeter"--let's not lose sight of the fact that these kinds of forces saved the day in Korea long ago, as unready as would have like them to be in favor of allegedly better forces that cannot get there at all or in time in a world that moves by the speed of the air where surface ship wakes are seen from space and targeted by mines, missiles, patrol boats and modern diesel-electric "ultra stealthy" submarines.
The nemy thought in 1950, that he could "smash and grab" South Korea before we could get men on the ground to stop him. Men like Addison Terry proved them wrong.
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Title: Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953 by Michael J. Varhola ISBN: 1882810449 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War by Eugene Franklin Clark, Thomas Fleming ISBN: 039914871X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 09 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Coldest War : A Memoir of Korea by James Brady ISBN: 0312265115 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 08 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R. Owen ISBN: 0804116970 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Korean War: Volume 1: Pusan to Chosin: An Oral History by Donald Knox ISBN: 0156027925 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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