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Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953 / Charles J. Hanley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 504 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541768178
  • 1541768175
Other title:
  • Life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.904/20922 23
LOC classification:
  • DS918.A553 H37 2020
Summary: "Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea -- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II -- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling the history of the war through the eyes of twenty one individuals -- soldiers and civilians, male and female, young and old, witnesses both to atrocity and to heroism. The narrative unfolds in interwoven episodes, month by month, from the hilltop trench lines, the refugee camps and the prisoner-of-war camps. In time for the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the war, Hanley offers a people's history of the devastating events on the Korean Peninsula"--
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Book Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Iola Public Library Adult Books 951.9042 Hanley, Charles (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Given in memory of Russell Brister by his mother, Mrs. Bertha R. Brister. 34311002852235

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea -- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II -- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling the history of the war through the eyes of twenty one individuals -- soldiers and civilians, male and female, young and old, witnesses both to atrocity and to heroism. The narrative unfolds in interwoven episodes, month by month, from the hilltop trench lines, the refugee camps and the prisoner-of-war camps. In time for the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the war, Hanley offers a people's history of the devastating events on the Korean Peninsula"--

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