Memories Of The Forgotten War
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Memories Of The Forgotten War
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Author : Vincent E. Goodwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Memories Of The Forgotten War written by Vincent E. Goodwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Soldiers categories.
Purple Hearts Battle Scars
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Author : John Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2008-07-23
Purple Hearts Battle Scars written by John Schneider and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-23 with Korean War, 1950-1953 categories.
"Purple Hearts-Battle Scars" is a vivid and sensitive account of combat in the Korean War as seen through the eyes of a nineteen-year old Marine sergeant. This is no macho book; with nine months of combat and two Purple Hearts, the author has no need to prove his credentials or his manhood. Rather, he quietly and movingly shares his experience of war, of the loss and the courage, of the comradship and the pain, and of the grim reality that in modern warfare survival is mosly a matter of luck--and he shows us what it is like when the luck runs out and the hot shell fragment tears into flesh. We learn the weapons and the tactics, the terror of night battles and we see the hills devoid of vegetation as the constant shelling reduces the land to powder. A Foreword and an Afterword by Marine Lt. General Bernard E. Trainor (Ret.) provide this book a context that gives the reader both an overview and a concluding point of rest.
Purple Hearts Battle Scars
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Author : John Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07-29
Purple Hearts Battle Scars written by John Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Embattled Memories
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Author : Suhi Choi
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2014-05-07
Embattled Memories written by Suhi Choi and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-07 with Social Science categories.
The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include two differing accounts of the No Gun Ri massacre\--contemporaneous journalism and oral histories by survivors\--Choi shows diverse narratives of the Korean War competing for dominance in acts of remembering. Embattled Memories is an important interdisciplinary work in two fields, memory studies and public history, from an understudied perspective, that of witnesses to the Korean War.
Remembering The Forgotten War
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Author : Philip West
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Remembering The Forgotten War written by Philip West and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with History categories.
In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war, an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English of Korean poetry by Korean soldiers, and American soldier poetry on the war. There is a photographic essay on the war by combat journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Max Desfor. Another chapter includes and analyzes songs on the Korean War - Korean, American, and Chinese - that illuminate the many complex memories of the war. There is a discussion of Korean films on the war and a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories. More than any other nonfiction book on the war, this one shows us the human face of tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most especially Koreans. June 2000 was the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War; this moving volume is intended as a commemoration of it.
Memories From The Forgotten War
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Author : Harris R. Stearns
language : en
Publisher: Vantage Press
Release Date : 2012-03-05
Memories From The Forgotten War written by Harris R. Stearns and has been published by Vantage Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-05 with categories.
THEY WERE SENT TO KOREA to fight in old, rusty, Pershing tanks from the previous war. The men referred to them as General MacArthur’s rolling junkyards. The tanks couldn’t run for a mile without overheating so they traveled behind enemy lines on flat cars, by rail. There were no replacement parts, no repair crews, no ammunition for their worn-out weapons, radios that didn’t work and dorms that had no beds but plenty of lice. They came from farms, small towns, big cities, all willing to risk everything for their country: their well-being, their sanity, their lives. Their country should have provided them with the training, the equipment, and the weaponry to do the job. But as Stearns reveals inMemories from the Forgotten War, during the action in Korea, the Army, the generals, the strategists, and the tacticians, failed the fighting forces in every way. Harry Stearns is the kind of man Americans have always loved to cheer for—brash, quick-thinking, smart-alecky, wise-cracking, and unafraid. But as a result of the mistakes, fog of war, and high-level bungling, Harry and his fellow soldiers were overrun by the enemy, captured, interrogated, and beaten. In the end they escaped, Stearns living to give us an erudite account of the real events in Korea from a political, strategic, and very human level.
Arrested Histories
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Author : Carole McGranahan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Arrested Histories written by Carole McGranahan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with History categories.
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan national history. In Arrested Histories, the anthropologist and historian Carole McGranahan shows how and why histories of this resistance army are “arrested” and explains the ensuing repercussions for the Tibetan refugee community. Drawing on rich ethnographic and historical research, McGranahan tells the story of the Tibetan resistance and the social processes through which this history is made and unmade, and lived and forgotten in the present. Fulfillment of veterans’ desire for recognition hinges on the Dalai Lama and “historical arrest,” a practice in which the telling of certain pasts is suspended until an undetermined time in the future. In this analysis, struggles over history emerge as a profound pain of belonging. Tibetan cultural politics, regional identities, and religious commitments cannot be disentangled from imperial histories, contemporary geopolitics, and romanticized representations of Tibet. Moving deftly from armed struggle to nonviolent hunger strikes, and from diplomatic offices to refugee camps, Arrested Histories provides powerful insights into the stakes of political engagement and the cultural contradictions of everyday life.
The Korean War Remembered
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Author : Michael J. Devine
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
The Korean War Remembered written by Michael J. Devine and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
"Michael J. Devine explores the public memory of the Cold War conflict to show how these memories have evolved over time in a complex and changing international environment, and continues to impact efforts at resolution of tensions with East Asia"--
Korea
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Author : James Hollis
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008-10
Korea written by James Hollis and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Although it has been many years since my service in the Military and it was for only two years, it was an important period of my life. I learned a lot in those two years that has helped me throughout my life. In the effort to write this book it has taken me back in time, reviving memories of old friends and things that have happened. I have tried to write of things I consider important. I have been fortunate to have lived long enough to become a old man. I know it was just by the luck of the draw that I was put where I was. I never volunteered for anything, nor did I try to get out of any order given to me. I am well aware I could have been put in the infantry instead of the artillery, where I did my time in the intelligence section. Most of the time a soldier happens to serve in duties he has no control over. This book has been written as much for my family and friends as for the general public. I hope all who takes the time to read what I have written will gain knowledge regarding the Korean War, and also my story is just one of the thousands of stories of young men who served their country at this time. For us the veterans, and our families IT WILL NEVER BECOME THE "FORGOTTEN WAR". REMEMBER THIS, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
Sacrifices For Patriotism
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Author : Helen Greene Leigh
language : en
Publisher: BalboaPress
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Sacrifices For Patriotism written by Helen Greene Leigh and has been published by BalboaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sacrifices for PatriotismA Korean POW Remembers the Forgotten War is a narrative nonfiction recollection of the thirty-seven months Pharis Greene spent in captivity during the Korean War. His story includes his childhood memories and continues to his life today. In Korea, Pharis experienced horrific events. He witnessed his new commander, Colonel Martin, being cut in half by a Russian tank after engaging in a street fight with only a bazooka to defend himself. Less than forty yards separated Pharis from his higher-ranking officer, Second Lieutenant Thornton, when a North Korean madman dubbed The Tiger shot him in the back of the head on the infamous Death March. On numerous occasions, Pharis feared his life was over, including the three times he stood in front of a firing squad. Some fellow POWs have been quoted in Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson and In Mortal Combat by John Toland. In contrast, Pharis shares his personal experiences from the beginning to the end of the Korean War and recalls how he endured the challenges and miraculously survived.