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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A revisionist account of the controversial war examines perspectives on both sides of the conflict while assessing its cultural contradictions and lasting influence, placing particular focus on the roles of McCarthyism and the media.
4) Korean War
Author
Publisher
Twenty-first Century Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Covers events leading up to the Korean War, the conflict itself, and its effects.
8) War trash
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Captured by enemy forces, Yu Yuan, a Chinese army officer serving in Korea in 1951, takes on the role of interpreter due to his proficiency in English, a role that places him in a conflict between his fellow prisoners and their captors.
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
American General Douglas MacArthur sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office on a secret mission behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation 'X-ray.' This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation 'Trudy Jackson.'
11) The surrendered
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
June Han is a starving 11-year-old refugee fleeing military combat during the Korean War when she is separated from her seven-year-old twin siblings. Eventually brought to an orphanage near Seoul by American soldier Hector Brennan, who is still reeling from his father's death, June slowly recovers from her nightmarish experiences thanks to the loving attention of Sylvie Tanner, the wife of the orphanage's minister. But Sylvie is irretrievably scarred...
13) In the tunnel
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi flees North Korea with his family during the height of the devastating Korean War, beginning an epic struggle for survival that pushes them to the brink.
14) Korean Conflict
Author
Publisher
Rourke Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Korea, 1950. They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. After months of living a stone's throw away from the daily bombings and dealing with the resulting nonstop casualties, the docs and nurses still managed to live up to their motto of delivering the "best care anywhere." The only things that kept the continued stress of war from turning these docs into casualties themselves were their own...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American war correspondent stationed in Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair, but when the journalist is transferred to Korea where war has broken out, tragedy strikes.
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