KOREAN WAR
Conflict on the Korean peninsula between UN-backed South Korea and Communist North Korea, 1950–1953.
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir
2018
NON-FICTIONGripping narrative of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir — where 15,000 UN troops were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in brutal Korean winter and fought their way to the sea.
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950
1983
NON-FICTIONThis battle analysis addresses the battle of Chosin Reservoir from 27 November to 11 December 1950 in northeastern North Korea during which the 1st Marine Division and some attached U.S. Army units fo...
Frozen Chosin
2014
NON-FICTIONBattle of the Chosin Reservoir, Chosin also called Changjin, campaign early in the Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive (November–December 1950) to drive the United Nations out of North Ko...
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 NOV-11 DEC 1950
1983
NON-FICTIONAnalyse fra Korea-krigen af kampene ved Chosin, hvor 1. US Marine Division, der var omringet af talstærke kinesiske styrker, slog sig igennem medbringende deres materiel og sårede.
Attack at Chosin
2020
NON-FICTIONFor members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, courage, and ingenuity. Their exploits are well known—wove...
Chosin
2007
NON-FICTIONIt was 1950, a brutally cold November in North Korea, and the war seemed all but over. And then a force of nearly 70,000 Chinese "volunteers" crossed the Yalu River, encircling the 30,000 United Natio...
35th Anniversary, the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea
1985
NON-FICTIONEast of Chosin
2002
NON-FICTION"Well written and meticulously researched ... East of Chosin is military history at its best". -- Harry G. Summers, Jr., Washington Post Book World
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
1963
NON-FICTIONClassic examination of the Korean War that focuses on the experience of the infantry soldier and the failures of American military preparedness.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
1992
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.
Korean War
2017
MILITARY HISTORYIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to...
The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most comprehensive operational history of the Korean War, based on thousands of interviews and classified documents.
Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
The Things They Carried
1990
FICTIONLandmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.
Dispatches
1977
MEMOIRIconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
1900
MILITARY HISTORYContains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...
The Handmaid's Tale
1985
MILITARY SCI-FIThe Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known a...
Vietnam and the United States
1998
NON-FICTIONDiscusses the origins and legacy of the Vietnam War and its impact on the United States.
The Korean War
1987
FICTIONChronicles the Korean War with over 200 interviews of veterans, including the Chinese.
Crazy Horse and Custer
1996
NON-FICTIONThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army sol...
Chindit, 1942-45
2009
NON-FICTIONOsprey's study of the Chidits of Wolrd War II (1939-19445). Named after mythical beasts guarding Buddhist temples, the Chindits were a specially organized, equipped and trained body of men employing i...
Vietnam
2006
NON-FICTION'Vietnam' features accounts of 135 men and women that span the history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. It allows us to see what this ...
The Vietnam War and American Culture
1991
NON-FICTIONExamines how the Vietnam War is perceived in American culture, especially by those who were not in Vietnam.
The Tragedy of Vietnam
2017
NON-FICTIONChapter 1 The French Indochina Empire -- chapter 2 The Dream of a Pax Americana -- chapter 3 America’s Mandarin -- chapter 4 The Summons of the Trumpet -- chapter 5 The Master of Deceit -- chapter 6 T...
Vietnam Remembered Today
2010
NON-FICTIONThis is the story of two brothers who served in Vietnam at the same time, yet their experiences were vastly different, one in a support function and the other fighting in the jungle.
The Korean War
2024
Presents an overview of the Korean War, including history, important people and battles, and a time line of events.
Overview of the Korean War
2009
NON-FICTIONExamines the causes, major battles and figures, and aftermath of the Korean War.
The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War
2013
NON-FICTIONThe Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of it...