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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-101401300529
ISBN-139781401300524
eBay Product ID (ePID)60216457
Product Key Features
Book TitleColdest Winter : America and the Korean War
Number of Pages736 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Military / Korean War, Military / United States
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorDavid Halberstam
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight40.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-001635
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromEighth Grade
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal951.904/240973
Synopsis"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." -- The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures-Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. 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, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.
LC Classification NumberDS919.H35 2007
