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From back cover: "African Americans have had a long tradition of serving in the military forces of the United States. None served more proudly and with more dedication than the members of the 9th and 10th Cavalries. Called "Buffalo Soldiers" by Native Americans, the men of these two unites helped shape the American frontier from 1867 to the turn of the century." "...also left a legacy ... World War I, World War II, and the Korean War..."Very Good condition. Previous owner's name in ink inside front cover, otherwise clean and tight. Slight soft bend at top corner. Slight bottom corner wear at bottom corner. Also includes newspaper clippings (both loose and paperclipped). 104 pages including Index.

From book introduction:
On June 25, 1950, nearly seven divisions of elite North Korean troops, many of whom had fought for the Communist side in the Chinese civil war, crossed the border into South Korea, with the intension of conquering the entire south in three weeks. Some six months earlier, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in a colossal gaffee, had neglected to include South Korea in America's Asian defense perimeter, and the only American forces then in the country, part of a tiny advisory mission, were almost completely unprepared for the attack. In the early weeks of the invasion, the Communist offensive was a stunning success. Every bit of news from the battlefield was negative. In Washington, President Harry Truman and his top advisors debated the enemy's intensions. Was this, as they greatly feared, an assault ordered up by the Russians? Were the North Koreans nothing but Moscow's pawns? Or was it a feint, the first in a series of what might be provocative Communist moves around the world?… Read More

Quote from back cover: "This superb autobiography by the man Eisenhower called the greatest field general of World War II is full of surprises....Widely remembered as a great but close-mouthed military leader, Bradley is startlingly outspoken in these pages....He is hard on Eisenhower for submitting to British demands during the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, and for allowing Montgomery...to intimidate him. He paints a vivid portrait of George Patton....Bradley was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Korean War, and his detailed account of MacArthur's high-handed, almost aberrant behavior in November-December, 1950, sheds new light on that contretemps." - Publishers Weekly
Very Good- condition. Covers have some rubbing/bumping and a little edge/corner wear. There is a small random piece of tape on the back cover. Text is clean and binding is tight.
752 pages including Index.

From back cover:
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, butter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interview 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, Ridgeway, and Bradley--and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.
389 pages including notes and index.

From inside dust jacket:
The Secrets of Inchon is a remarkable story of heroism and courage, only now come to light after fifty years: the true account of Navy Commander (then Lieutenant) Eugene Franklin Clark--a man, according to his colleagues, with "the nerves of a burglar and the flair of a Barbary Coast pirate"--and the daring covert mission that helped change the course of the Korean War.
325 pages.