A Conscript In Korea

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A Conscript In Korea

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Author : Neville Williams
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2010-03-10

A Conscript In Korea written by Neville Williams and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-10 with History categories.

A memoir of service in the Korean War, though bitter cold, monsoons, and ever-present danger from enemy forces—includes photos. This remarkable story begins when, as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing experiences, in particular the twelve months he spent with the 1st Battle Welch Regiment in Korea. In this memoir he tells his story of this almost forgotten war in graphic detail. Temperatures could drop to -45 with biting Siberian snow-laden winds. In the spring came the monsoons followed by a humid mosquito-laden period. The Welch Regiment at that time were part of the Commonwealth Division that, allied to the American and Korean ROK armies, was tasked with holding a line north of the 38th Parallel while politicians tried to broker a deal. The Chinese were well dug in, and were a resourceful determined enemy, never missing a chance to edge forward even if it meant serious casualties. Artillery exchanges were often fierce, and information and fighting patrols often clashed. As a lance corporal infantry signaler, the author was involved at all levels of operational and company activity and he gives the reader a real insight into the events and circumstances of war and the thoughts of a young man caught up in a desperate and dangerous conflict. The tenacity and spirit of young National Servicemen, and their Regular partners, shines through as they face life-threatening and exhausting situations and conditions.

The Conscript

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Author : Timothy D. W. Lehman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The Conscript written by Timothy D. W. Lehman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with American fiction categories.

Following in the tradition of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Park Chan-Wook's Joint Security Area, The Conscript depicts the struggle of a Korean-American college student unwillingly recruited into the South Korean army upon traveling to Seoul to study. Later he is stationed at Korean DMZ, the most heavily armed border in the world, and must choose how to react when everything begins to go awry. Focused more on small character moments than large explosions or shootouts, the script engages directly with the decades-long conflict between North and South Korea.

Prayer For Peace

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Author : Aesop Rhim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-30

Prayer For Peace written by Aesop Rhim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with categories.

When the Korean War begins in June, 1950, AESOP RHIM was a teenage boy living in Chosan, a town near the Yalu River, in North Korea. His entire high school class was drafted to serve in the war. After his military training ends, Aesop began his long march to the southern front with his army unit, which passes the 38th parallel and he witnessed the ravages of a war-torn South Korea. At a nearby war zone, Aesop's unit served on patrol in what became a battlefield, near the Pusan Perimeter. At the time, Aesop agonized over his conscription in an unwanted war. Soon after, his unit was attacked by American tanks; chaos and death was everywhere. Aesop jumped into a river and abandoned all belongings that would identify him as a North Korean soldier. He emerged on the other side of the river thankful to be alive. He tried to reach Heungki's house, who was a childhood friend. He, with his family had escaped to South Korea before the war, and exchanged letters with Aesop. On his way, Aesop struggled for an arduous few days of walking on mountain roads. He felt the pain of exhaustion, and starvation. After several deadly skirmishes, he was captured by the South Korean local guards and severely beaten. Death seemed imminent. Aesop prayed for God's mercy while imprisoned. When the South Korean army arrived, the unit officer asked Aesop his identity, and he told him the name of town he is from. The officer was amazed. It turned out that the officer was from that town, and knew Aesop's family. A miracle occurred. The officer separated Aesop from the other prisoners and arranged to give him a temporary South Korean soldier status, allowing Aesop to join the South Korean army, which was advancing toward North Korea. While Aesop served as a South Korean soldier, he became sick with tuberculosis. He was sent to a sanitarium where he feared death again. However, after he recovered from the illness, the army discharged him from service. When the war ended, Aesop was a young man with no place to stay, but he discovered his destiny as a Christian of deep faith and embarked on a new life journey. He was able to graduate from a fine arts college in Seoul University to become an artist, eventually immigrating to the United States to attend a graduate art school. There he met his wife, Sunhee, and the young couple moved to Chicago, where Aesop graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology Graduate School and settled as an artist in Chicago. Aesop devoted his art to initiating Peace. In 1997, he had the opportunity to travel back to North Korea on a peace initiative mission and was finally reunited with his siblings. There he witnessed the deprivations of North Korea. At the time, Aesop was shocked to learn from his sister that in the winter of 1975, his older brother was sent to a concentration camp along with his family and his mother. It was a devastating moment for Aesop, but he prayed for God's guidance and mercy for his remaining family. When Aesop returned from Pyongyang, he attended a seminary. In 2001, he encountered 9/11terrorism in New York, and resolved to use his art as a tool for peace. He created the Prayer for Peace exhibitions, shown in many places in the United States to this day. Aesop's artistic efforts reflected his prayer for peace. In the meantime, Aesop dedicated himself to missions for peace to the world, such as Mexico and Uganda and began sending medical supplies to North Korea. And finally, Aesop's Prayer for Peace became Aesop's life and art.

The Accidental Citizen Soldier

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Author : Young Chun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-28

The Accidental Citizen Soldier written by Young Chun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with categories.

The Professional Soldier

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Author : Morris Janowitz
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-07-18

The Professional Soldier written by Morris Janowitz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-18 with Political Science categories.

This book identifies three issues that confront civil-military relations to this day: how to judge the political consequences of military conduct, how to solve problems of international relations while using less force, and how to strengthen civilian control of the military while preserving professional military autonomy.

Who Ate Up All The Shinga

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Author : Wan-suh Park
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-15

Who Ate Up All The Shinga written by Wan-suh Park and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Fiction categories.

Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean." But then the tendrils of the Japanese occupation, which had already worked their way through much of Korean society before her birth, began to encroach on Park's idyll, complicating her day-to-day life. With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters and events that came to shape her young life, portraying the pervasive ways in which collaboration, assimilation, and resistance intertwined within the Korean social fabric before the outbreak of war. Most absorbing is Park's portrait of her mother, a sharp and resourceful widow who both resisted and conformed to stricture, becoming an enigmatic role model for her struggling daughter. Balancing period detail with universal themes, Park weaves a captivating tale that charms, moves, and wholly engrosses.

The Comfort Women

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Author : C. Sarah Soh
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-05-15

The Comfort Women written by C. Sarah Soh and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with History categories.

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Sex Among Allies

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Author : Katharine H. S. Moon
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1997-11-05

Sex Among Allies written by Katharine H. S. Moon and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-05 with History categories.

This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.

Soldier Sailor Beggarman Thief

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Author : Clive Emsley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-01-24

Soldier Sailor Beggarman Thief written by Clive Emsley and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with History categories.

The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.

The Real North Korea

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Author : Andrei Lankov
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015

The Real North Korea written by Andrei Lankov and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.

In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive