Texas A M Univ Pr Books
Books editi da Texas A M Univ Pr pubblicati nella collana Hardcover con argomento Korean War 1950 1953
Combat Ready?
Hanson Thomas E.
edizioni Texas A & M Univ Pr collana (Hardcover)
In the decades since the “forgotten war” in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations historians and fellow...
Cold Days in Hell
Latham William Clark Jr.
edizioni Texas A & M Univ Pr collana Texas A & M Univ Pr (Hardcover)
I Cannot Forget
Moore Johnny
Gentry Judith Fenner
edizioni Texas A & M Univ Pr collana Texas A & M Univ Pr (Hardcover)
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was...
Leadership in the Crucible
Hamburger Kenneth Earl
edizioni Texas A & M Univ Pr collana Texas A & M Univ Pr (Hardcover)
At the pivotal battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni in February 1951, U.N. forces met and contained large-scale attacks by Chinese forces. Colonel Paul Freeman and the larger-than-life Colonel Ralph Monclar led the American 23rd Infantry Regiment and the French Bataillon de Corée, respectively, in the fierce and...
From the Hudson to the Yalu
Maihafer Harry J.
edizioni Texas A & M Univ Pr collana Texas A & M Univ Pr (Hardcover)
They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and national complacency. A year later these young officers were plunged into a cruel and unexpected war and were forced to compensate, by valor and leadership, for the nation's...