000			01374nam a2200193 4500
020			_a9780156027939
024			_a223736844
050			_aDS918
082			_a951.9042
100	1		_aDonald Knox
245	1		_aThe Korean War: Uncertian Victory
260			_bMariner Books _c2002
300			_a528 pages
520			_aBegun in The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin, Donald Knox's engrossing and stunning oral history continues here with the last two and a half years of the war and the uneasy armistice achieved in 1953. For too many Americans the Korean War is a piece of history that remains vaguely remembered and scantly acknowledged. Yet the death toll for U.S. service personnel in the three years in Korea was virtually the same as in ten years in Vietnam, and the motivation of the soldiers who risked their lives was no less noble than those who fought in World War II. Knox, determined that the human side of the Korean conflict--the mud and the frost, the fear and the exultation, the gallantry and the sacrifice--be fixed in memory, undertook the formidable task of collecting the experiences of the soldiers who fought in Korea. His own narrative, with additional text by Alfred Coppel, is interwoven here with soldiers' words to create a riveting account of a brutal war.
650			_aWar
650			_aHistory - Asia
700	1		_aAlfred Coppel
999			_c1940 _d1940