KOREA, 1950--1953:
A Reading List
A Reading List
Histories
The Bloody Road to Panmunjom, by Edwin P. Hoyt. S&D, 1985.
The Crimson Sky: The Air Battle Over Korea, by John R. Bruning, Jr. Brassey's, 1999.
The Day the Chinese Attacked: Korea, 1950--The Story of the Failure of America's China
Policy, by Edwin P. Hoyt. MH, 1990.
Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur, by Roy E. Appleman. Texas A&M,
1989.
The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953, by Clay Blair. Times, 1988, 1987.
Korea: The First War We Lost, by Bevin Alexander. Hippocrene, 1986.
The Korean Conflict, by Burton I. Kaufman. Greenwood, 1999.
The Korean War, by Max Hastings. S&S, 1987.
The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, by Michael Hickey. Overlook, 1999.
The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished, by Stanley Sandler. Univ. of KY, 1999.
Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea, 1950-1953, by D. Clayton James,
with Anne Sharp Wells. Free Press, 1993.
Shadow Warriors: The Covert War on Korea, by William B. Breuer. Wiley, 1996.
A Short History of the Korean War, by James L. Stokesbury. Morrow, 1988.
Personal & Unit Narratives
About Face, by David H. Hackworth & Julie Sherman. S&S, 1989.
Breakout: The Choison Reservoir Campaign, Korea, 1950, by Martin Russ. Fromm, 1999.
Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Choison Reservoir, by Joseph R. Owen.
NIP, 1996.
The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea, by James Brady. Orion, 1990.
Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been?: Living Memories of the U.S. Marines in the Korean War, by
Henry Berry, 1988.
Hot Shots: An Oral History of the Air Force Combat Pilots of the Korean War, ed. by
Jennie Ethell Chancey & William R. Forstchen. Morrow, 2000.
I Should Have Died, by Philip Deane (Philippe Deane Gigantes). Hamilton, 1976.
In Enemy Hands: A Prisoner in North Korea, by Larry Zellers. Univ. of KY, 1991.
The Korean War: An Oral History, by Donald Knox. HBJ, 1985-1988. Includes: Pusan to
Chosin and Uncertain Victory.
M A S H: An Army Surgeon in Korea, by Otto F. Apel, Jr. & Pat Apel. Univ. of KY, 1998.
Men in Low Cut Shoes: A Marine Rifle Company in Korea, 1950-1951, by Morgan
Brainard. T&H, 1986.
No Bugles, No Drums: An Oral History of the Korean War, by Rudy Tomedi. Wiley, 1993.
Sergeant Major, U.S. Marines, by Maurice J. Jacques & Bruce H. Norton. Ivy, 1995.
Submarine Commander: A Story of World War II & Korea, by Paul R. Schratz. Univ. of
KY, 1988.
Unexpected Journey: A Marine Corps Reserve Company in the Korean War, by
Randy K. Mills & Roxanne Mills. NIP, 2000.
White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea, by Ben S. Malcom, with Ron Martz.
Brassey's, 1996.
Witness to War: Korea, by Rod Paschall. Berkley, 1995.
Douglas MacArthur
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, by William Manchester. LB, 1978.
Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, by Michael Schaller. OUP, 1989.
MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, by Stanley Weintraub.
Free Press, 2000.
Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur, by Geoffrey Perret. RH, 1996.
The Years of MacArthur, by D. Clayton James. 3 vols. HM, 1970-1985.
Followed by: Escaping the Trap: The U.S. Army X Corps in Northeast Korea (1990) and
Ridgway Duels for Korea (1990).
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