Voices from the Korean war : personal stories of American, Korean, and Chinese soldiers /
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. The Korean war: a short history
- 1. Background and origins of the war
- 2. The opening phase: south toward Pusan, north to the Yalu
- 3. China enters the war
- 4. The Chosin reservoir retreat and advance to the north
- 5. Truce talks and prison riots
- 6. Trench warfare and peace
- Part Two. Many faces, one war
- 7. Getting to Korea
- 8. A mortar man's story
- 9. Escaping the trap
- 10. A North Korean officer's story
- 11. China's crouching dragon
- Part Three. Chosin accounts
- 12. The Chosin reservoir: a marine's story
- 13. The Chosin reservoir: a Chinese captain's story
- Part Four. On the front lines
- 14. The Hwachon reservoir fighting
- 15. Life on the MLR
- 16. A BAR man's story
- 17. First combat
- 18. Outpost Harry
- 19. A ROK lieutenant survives the bloody ridges
- 20. The Chinese go underground
- 21. North and south: a Korean youth serves in both armies
- Part Five. Behind the front lines
- 22. The "lighter" side of the war
- 23. A Korean housewife's story
- Part Six. POW camps: north and south
- 24. An american officer observes the Koje island uprising
- 25. One week of war, three years of captivity
- 26. A first sergeant's experience as a POW
- 27. Organizing the riots on Koje: Colonel Zhao's story
- Perspectives on the war.