The Coldest Winter
Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures -- Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-330-54016-2
- EAN: 9780330540162
- Produktnummer: 13925710
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 736 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'006 KB
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David Halberstam
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