Best korean war campaigns history books according to redditors
We found 5 Reddit comments discussing the best korean war campaigns history books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 5 Reddit comments discussing the best korean war campaigns history books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Just read 'On Desperate Ground' 2 weeks ago. About the USMC defense of North Korea. Not sure if you read this yet, but it's pretty good. The Corps at this point had faced almost every enemy and every terrain. Except extreme cold and 250,000 Chinese. At the 'Frozen Chosin', they got introduced to both. They did amazing, but it was too mucb for them. check it out of you get a chance. great book.
To hit a few that haven’t been mentioned:
Colder than Hell is a pretty good autobiography about Korea.
Semper Fi Vietnam gives a pretty good overview of our actions Vietnam. Made me realize how heavy some of the fighting was, and how inaccurate the popular conception of the war was.
No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe are both pretty good accounts of Iraq. The former mostly deals with Fallujah and the latter with the Awakening.
The USA already fought a war supporting South Korea, and the war between both Korean sides actually has never officially stopped.
It was the first war the USA did not win.
And the border between the two Koreas has the bigger concentration of landmines in the world.
A quarter of the way through this:
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
The true story of Commander Eugene F. Clark, USN scouting Inchon Harbor just prior to MacArthur's amphibious invasion would make a fantastic action-packed miniseries or movie. The epic ending every screenwriter dreams of.
Immediately after the war, Clark wrote a 300+ page memoir of the mission. Discovered by his kids after his death and published: The Secrets of Inchon - The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War
From the back of the book:
>Retrieved from the safe-deposit box, this stunning firsthand account of a crucial, but little-known, covert mission of the Korean War offers an honest, revealing, and remarkable story of wartime courage-from the very man who led the mission.
>According to colleagues, Commander Eugene Franklin Clark had "the nerves of a burglar and the flair of a Barbary Coast Pirate." And in August, 1950, when General Douglas MacArthur made the unpopular decision to invade Inchon-a move considered by many to be tactical suicide-he sent in Clark to find out what they needed to know.
>Discovered by North Koreans, he soon found his intelligence gathering interrupted by firefights, air raids, hand-to-hand combat, and even a small-scale naval battle. Culminating in the night of the invasion, Clark's account, informed by a growing brotherhood with his newfound allies, is rich in both adventure and humanity.
>Eugene Clark served in the Navy during World War II, and after the war, among other assignments, was attached to General Douglas MacArthur's G-2 (intelligence) staff in Tokyo. He was there when the Korean War began, and was approached for the Inchon mission. For his role in the invasion, he won the Silver Star, and the Far Eastern Command added the Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct." Later missions resulted in an Oak Leaf Cluster and the Navy Cross. Clark died in 1998, after retiring from the Navy in 1966 with the rank of commander.
On my bookshelf, this book stands between Lawrence of Arabia and The Old Breed. One of the very best, but least known, firsthand war accounts.