Max Hastings

The Korean War

Sprecher: Davidson, Frederick

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 999 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781470847753
• Artikelnr.: 36182907

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings is the author of The Korean War, Overlord, and Bomber Command and the coauthor of Battle for the Falklands. Editor of The Daily Telegraph, he lives in London, England.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Foreword
Prologue: Task Force Smith
1. Origins of a Tragedy
2. Invasion
3. The West's Riposite
Washington
Tokyo
Seoul
4. Walker's War
Retreat to the Naktong
Dressing Ranks
The Pusan Perimeter
5. Inchon
6. To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel
7. The Coming of the Chinese
8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir
9. The Winter of Crisis
The Big Bugout
Washington and Tokyo
The Arrival of Ridgway
10. Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur
11. The Struggle on the Imjin
12. The Stony Road
Toward Stalemate
Panmunjom
The Cause
13. The Intelligence War
14. The Battle in the Air
15. The War on the Hills
16. The Prisoners
17. The Pursuit of Peace
Koje-do
"I Shall Go to Korea"
The Last Act
18. Hindsight
Chronology
Notes and References
Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index
List of Maps
Korea
The Invasion of South Korea
From Inchon to Seoul
The Chinese Intervention
Retreat from the Chosin Reservoir
The Battle of the Imjin River