Author: Robert Debs HeinlPublisher:
ISBN: 9780933852037
Category : Inchon Landing, Inchʻŏn, Korea, 1950
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Victory at High Tide
Author: Robert Debs HeinlPublisher:
ISBN: 9780933852037
Category : Inchon Landing, Inchʻŏn, Korea, 1950
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Victory at High Tide
Author: Victory at High Tide
Author: Robert Debs HeinlPublisher: Ayer Company Pub
ISBN: 9780405132827
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Victory at High Tide
Author: Robert Debs HeinlPublisher: Leo Cooper Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Truman and MacArthur
Author: Michael D. PearlmanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253000181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would collapse the Chinese communist regime in Beijing, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the Far East Theater, pressed the administration of President Harry S. Truman for authorization to launch an invasion of China across the Taiwan straits. Truman refused; MacArthur began to argue his case in the press, a challenge to the tradition of civilian control of the military. He moved his protest into the partisan political arena by supporting the Republican opposition to Truman in Congress. This violated the President's fundamental tenet that war and warriors should be kept separate from politicians and electioneering. On April 11, 1951 he finally removed MacArthur from command. Viewing these events through the eyes of the participants, this book explores partisan politics in Washington and addresses the issues of the political power of military officers in an administration too weak to carry national policy on its own accord. It also discusses America's relations with European allies and its position toward Formosa (Taiwan), the long-standing root of the dispute between Truman and MacArthur.
The United States Navy and Defense Unification, 1947-1953
Author: Paolo Enrico ColettaPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874131260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This book provides a historical background to the problems met during the early days of defense unification of the three U.S. military services: the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. The author analyzes the problem of unification during both peacetime and wartime, showing how the Korean War served to point up the capabilities and limitations of the three services.
Daily Report
Author: For Country and Corps
Author: Gail B ShislerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of Seoul, and the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. Called one of the twentieth century’s great Marine leaders, Smith was known as an outstanding combat commander and a man of great intellect and moral courage. This biography, written by the granddaughter he helped raise, illuminates the general’s remarkable life. It draws on interviews, oral histories and a thorough examination of letters held by the family and not previously available to researchers. Gail Shisler’s investigation of Smith’s relationship with his Army superiors in Korea and with his Marine Corps peers and superiors takes exception to previously published descriptions and adds new insights into the Corps’ postwar battle for survival.
Delivering Victory
Author: Richard E. KillblanePublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787546039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In this book US Army Transportation Corps Historian, Richard E. Killblane, utitlizes the expertise of professionals with lived experience of synchronizing military transportation from end to end to uniquely explore how military transportation logistics have evolved during the last half of the 20th Century and beyond towards greater efficiency.
A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
Author: Ronald H. SpectorPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 "Marvelous.…Spector’s gripping book.…[helps] us to understand why the legacy of these conflicts is still with us today." —Sheila Miyoshi Jager, New York Times Book Review The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled “the long peace.” Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya—the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the famous surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, civil war, communal clashes, and insurgency engulfed the continent, from Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars were raging in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East, and Southeast Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries, and international archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.