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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. [12], 464 p.: 40 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. (9½ inches). White cloth spine with olive-stamped title; oliver paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Maps on endpapers. Includes epilogue, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. In Fine/Very Good+ condition: dust jacket edges and tail of spine rubbed.. Fine/Very Good+.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. xv, 1,136 p.: 48 unpaginated pages of illustrations, 1 double-page map, 9 in-text and full-page maps; 23¼ cm. (9¼ inches). Paperback, with color illustrated front cover. Includes sources and acknowledgments, notes, and index. First Anchor Books edition. The bloody three-year war fought by America in Korea" was a traumatic and momentous chapter in American history. It was a big, long war, during which nearly 6 million men and women served in the armed forces. Americans fought in Korea nearly three times as long as they had fought in World War I and almost as long as they had fought in World War II. The first year of combat was brutal and bloody, often surpassing the toughest battles of any war in American history. Total American casualties in Korea were heavy: 33,629 killed and 103,284 wounded." This is the story of that forgotten war! [from the preface]. ISBN 0-385-26033-4. The seminal work on the Korean War! Book is in Very Good+ Condition: cover slightly soiled; ends of spine lightly rubbed; edges of pages are lightly sunned; pages are clean and tight.. Very Good+.
New York: Times Books, 1987. xv, 1,136 p.: several in-text and full-page maps; 48 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. (9½ inches). Dark blue cloth with gilt-printed spine title and 5-star gilt-stamped insignia on front cover. Color dust jacket. Maps on endpapers. Includes sources and acknowledgments, notes, and indices. First Edition. "The Korean War was a turning point in the ideological struggle between Communism and the West; Cold War turned Hot War, the first all-out armed conflict between the world's superpowers." This excellent account of the war "is a masterwork of military history that combines battlefield-level detail with command-level history as well as the domestic and international political dimensions of the war," and "explores every phase of the war; the slaughter of the first undertrained troops to arrive in Korea; Eighth Army's desperate early retreat to the Pusan Perimeter and its heroic stand there; the dramatic amphibious landing at Inchon; the massive entry of the Chinese Communist forces; the controversial retreat of Eighth Army and its eventual victorious comeback" [from the dust jacket]. ISBN 0-8129-1670-0. The seminal work on the Korean War. Book is in Very Good Condition: red remainder mark on bottom page edges; a number of pages with light upper right-corner crease, not impacting the text. Pages are clean and tight, no marks of any kind. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: small discoloration on front section; creasing along top edge of front and back sections and flaps; 5mm [¼-inch] tear top edge of back section.. First Edition. Very Good/Good+.