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Books with title The Korean War - 1950-1953

  • The Korean War

    Michael Burgan

    eBook (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2014)
    Its 1950 and the Communist country of North Korea has invaded its neighboring country of South Korea. The United Nations has stepped in to help South Korea by providing weapons and soldiers. Nearly all of these soldiers come from the United States. Will you: Serve as a pilot in Korea with the U.S. Marine Corps? Lie about your age to enlist as a 16 year old member of the U.S. military reserves? Join in the fight for your country as a young South Korean man? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death.
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  • The Korean War

    Carter Malkasian

    eBook (Osprey Publishing, June 6, 2014)
    The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.
  • The war in Korea, 1950-1953

    Robert Leckie

    Hardcover (Random House, March 15, 1963)
    Robert Leckie presents an authentic and lucid account of an unusual conflict which was fought on two battlefields - across the rugged Korean terrain, where troops met in bloody combat, and around the conference tables, where truce teams engaged in grueling negotiations to bring about a peace.
  • The Korean War

    Reg Grant

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, July 1, 2004)
    This series sets out to explain why the major wars of the 20th century started, to describe what happened, and to analyse how the results changed our world. Each title includes 24 maps which show how the battles and campaigns were fought, how boundaries were redrawn, and nations reshaped.
  • The Korean War

    Carter Malkasian

    Paperback (Osprey Publishing, Sept. 25, 2001)
    The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.
  • The Korean War

    Tom McGowen

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, March 1, 1993)
    An overview of the three-year war that took over two million lives and resolved none of the conflicts that split Korea into two irreconcilable nations
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  • The Korean War

    R. G. Grant

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, Oct. 15, 2004)
    Examines the military conflict between North and South Korea, discussing the roots of the conflict in the Cold War and the consequences that have maintained the artificial barrier that divides the Korean peninsula into two countries.
  • The Korean War

    State Department Official Carter Malkasian

    Library Binding (Rosen Publishing Group, Sept. 1, 2008)
    The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.
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  • The Korean War

    Gary Riley Jeffrey

    Paperback (Crabtree Publishing Company, Oct. 28, 2013)
    After World War II ended, control of Korea was divided between the United States, who occupied the southern part, and the Soviet Union, who occupied the north. Tensions between the two new countries escalated until North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. This book describes battles between American and United Nations forces and Soviet, North Korean, and Chinese forces for control of the entire Korean Peninsula. Featured stories include:
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  • The Korean War

    Ruth Tenzer Feldman

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2003)
    Book by Feldman, Ruth Tenzer
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  • The Korean War

    John Ziff

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Sept. 1, 2015)
    Examines the events that led to the Korean War and the political and military strategies employed by the United States and Korea, and provides information on key people, battles, and events.
  • The Korean War

    Andrew Santella

    Library Binding (Compass Point Books, Sept. 1, 2006)
    On June 25, 1950, thousands of North Korean troops streamed into South Korea, leading an invasion that caught most of the world by surprise. The United States quickly responded by sending troops to help the South Koreans defend their country. Help from other members of the United Nations came in the form of combat units, medical teams, food, and other supplies. For more than three years, the war raged on, leading to the deaths of countless soldiers and civilians.
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