The Korean War

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.

Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets—including the Chinese—Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home—the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley—and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

• Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
• Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
• The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
• This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
• Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
• Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
• Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
• Overlord
• Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story--The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
• The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)