The Coldest Winter
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001PTG4M8 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 489 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Most of us, when we take to the road and meet admiring strangers, vow afterward to answer the note pressed into our hands or to pass along the speech we promised to the person whose daughter couldn't be there to hear it. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter the best book he ever wrote, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history.The Coldest Winter changes that. We have included testimonials given at his memorial service by two writers who made their reputations at the same newspaper where he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam War reporting, The New York Times: Anna Quindlen David occupied a lot of space on the planet. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden.The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, and provides crucial perspective on the Vietnam War and the events of today. When I mentioned this once he dug his hands deep intothe pockets of his grey flannels, set his mouth at the corners, looked down and rumbled, "Well, but it's so easy." That'
The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it. David did it. Raucous public outcry in support of the celebrated general further erodes Truman's popularity.The EndJuly 27, 1953After years of bloody stalemate, a cease-fire is signed between North Korea and the UN. General MacArthur lobbies relentlessly for attacks into China, an action that would draw China, and likely the USSR, into a full-scale war. 1950The North Koreans launch assault after assault against the Pusan Perimeter, with particularly brutal fighting taking place along the Naktong River. The border established is very close to the original line at the 38th parallel. foreign policy, the lessons of Korea still largely remain unlearned.The drive to Seoul, September 16-28, 1950.
Gilberto Villahermosa said An Endlessly Interesting and Insightful History of the Forgotten War!. David Halberstam's "The Coldest War" is a brilliantly written, compelling, and well balanced history of the United States and China in the Korean War.The book is a scathing condemnation of U.S. and U.N. Commander General Douglas MacArthur and key members of his staff, including Generals Edward (Ned) Almond and Charles Willoughby. Almond, MacArthur's Chief of Staff and Commander of the U.S. X Corps, was a racist who continuously underestimated the military capabilities of the Chinese. Willoughby, MacArthur's chief of intelligence, skewed or ignored key intelligence reports indicating the C. A riviting tale of the Korean War, and 1950's political climate A fascinating story of the Korean War. This book has lots of stories about the generals, the battles and their soldiers as the US fights the North Koreans and the Chinese Communists in the Korean Peninsula in the early 1950's. It is very a detailed saga, describing the bravery of the men, and their victories, as well as the mistakes made by commanding officers. It exposes the over confidence of General MacArthur (a famous WWII hero) as he manages the war from his base in Tokyo, and his refusal to belief his enemies can fight.. An Important History of a Forgotten War David Halberstam's final work, "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" is a fine account of the first shooting war within the Cold War. Halberstam's book succeeds on many levels. Personal accounts of battle and military life by American soldiers add a credibility to this story which does not always fall strictly into the genre of military history. Indeed this work examines the minute political and diplomatic dances of not only the United States, but also the Soviet Union, China, and the two Koreas. Cold Warrior personalities such as Dean Aacheson and George Kennan are examined ev