This Kind of War : The Classic Korean War History

from MatthewN

I was first introduced to this book while serving in Korea. It was a different book in the sense that it told the story of the war from the individual's point of view. The author is not some historian reconstructing events from news clippings and war reports in a library somewhere. He was actuall...

from GeoKaras

One of the best accounts of the war. Well written with both strategic, tactical and individual stories told.

from JEldredge

Simply put, the most well researched and written account of the Forgotten War available.

from DinadansFriend

A journalistic, but accurate description of the "police Action" on the Korean peninsula between 1950 and 1953. The USa was facing a war conducted by an army of lower technology, and was very surprised to discover that their opponents would give them a very great deal of trouble tactically, and po...

from TCWriter

An excellent (and detailed history) of the Korean War (my father fought there), yet the effort would have been more appreciated had the author not marbled the book so heavily with opinions blaming a permissive society for a sub-par US fighting force. The ranting does nothing to further the book, ...