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Sep 1, 2008 · Even though a non-communist South Korea was preserved it was a very unpopular war in America, shortened Truman’s presidential aspirations, ended McArthur’s career, and set America on the endless task of eternal military protection for that nation.
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War is a non-fiction book by the author David Halberstam. It was published posthumously in 2007, after his sudden death in a traffic collision at the age of 73. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2008. Subject
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Jan 1, 2007 · The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. David Halberstam. 4.21. 8,781 ratings826 reviews. "In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY Times. Halberstam's magisterial & thrilling The Best & the Brightest was a defining book about the Vietnam conflict.
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Sep 25, 2007 · The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that...
Sep 16, 2008 · The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete.
Halberstam tells the story of a difficult and forgotten war, the Korean War. In its own way, it was a potential disaster like Vietnam. MacArthur plays a villain in many places here, undermining his spectacular success at Inchon with equally spectacular hubris in driving his army to the northern end of Korea, leading to spectacular defeat ...
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Sep 23, 2007 · Korea was where America first revealed its imperial ineptitude and where our military leaders vowed never again to wage a ground war in Asia. As Halberstam barely needs to mention, then came...
