The Korean War

The Korean War by Max Hastings. Published by Simon & Schuster, NY, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. ISBN 0671528238. LCCN 87-16547. The author brilliantly captures the big picture - the Cold War crisis at home, the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley. He shows how Korea served as a prelude to Vietnam and how its lessons - the difficulty of using air power against a primitive economy, the problem of deploying a Western army in a broken country - were ignored. Analyzing the war in the context of its times, the author show what we endured, what we achieved, and what we should have learned in the war that began a new era in the American conflict with communism. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 389 Pgs. Description text copyright 2005 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 8981.