The Korean War by Hastings, Max - 1987

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Ed. Hardbound 8vo. 389 Pgs.. Nr Fine in Chipped DJ/Good. The Korean War by Max Hastings. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. 389 Pgs. ISBN 0671528238. LCCN 87-16547. The author brilliantly captures the big picture - the Cold War crisis at home, the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley. He shows how Korea served as a prelude to Vietnam and how its lessons - the difficulty of using air power against a primitive economy, the problem of deploying a Western army in a broken country - were ignored. Analyzing the war in the context of its times, the author show what we endured, what we achieved, and what we should have learned in the war that began a new era in the American conflict with communism. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 8981.