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Book Synopsis A Korean War Odyssey by : Tom Gormley
Download or read book A Korean War Odyssey written by Tom Gormley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picture of the young soldier with the ears sticking out graced my mother-in-law’s kitchen forever. When asked, she would reply that her younger brother Donnie disappeared during the Korean War at the tender age of eighteen. In 2010, my wife, Sandy, and I set out to discover what happened to Corporal Donald Matney and to bring him home. Our journey took us to Washington, DC; Seoul, Korea; and many places in between. But slowly, carefully, step-by-step, we reconstructed the short life of Sandy’s uncle Donnie, identified his remains, and returned him to rest by his mother’s side in Missouri. A Korean War Odyssey is this story. The saga begins with a Korean history lesson told through the eyes of a fictional young refugee family fleeing the North Korean invasion. It continues from the viewpoint of a soldier on occupation duty in Japan suddenly thrust into a violent “police action”. Both witness the atrocities of war until one disappears. Through alternating perspectives, the account continues weaving what happened during the war with how we identified this missing young soldier and brought him home. A Korean War Odyssey provides much needed insight for today’s headlines. Those with friends and relatives lost during the Forgotten War will learn what may have happened. Anyone who desires to understand the Korean War and why the US still has a presence on this Asian peninsula today will gain a new viewpoint.
Book Synopsis Korean War Odyssey A.k.a. World War Three by : R. L. Weiler
Download or read book Korean War Odyssey A.k.a. World War Three written by R. L. Weiler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book KOREAN ODYSSEY (EB) written by Dale A Dye and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then-in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant-the “defecation strikes the oscillation.” War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.
Book Synopsis An American Odyssey by : S. E. Kung Oh
Download or read book An American Odyssey written by S. E. Kung Oh and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey by : Michael E. Robinson
Download or read book Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey written by Michael E. Robinson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910. Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included—and thus implicated—Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.
Book Synopsis THE UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER IN THE USO POSTER by : RICHARD & BETTY COATE
Download or read book THE UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER IN THE USO POSTER written by RICHARD & BETTY COATE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrors of WWII were still fresh in our minds when the Korean War broke out. June 25, 1950, when the North Korean Communists crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea, changed the course of my life. Betty, her roommate Marian Ott, Richard?s old Trenton buddy and roommate Harvey Seeman, and Richard were driving to ?Old Man?s Cave,? which is about a hundred miles southwest of Columbus. It was a day made for poets and we couldn?t have been in a more festive mood. The radio was tuned to the classical music station on WOSU when the program was interrupted with the news that the North Korean Communist troops had crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel to invade South Korea. Korea? Where?s that? Richard flunked his physical for induction into WWII but would pass muster to fight in what was tragically mislabeled as a mere ?police action.? Richard had proposed marriage to Betty earlier that spring, with plans for a wedding the following December of ?50. Little over eight months since their trip to Old Man?s Cave, Richard was among the first draftees to enter the war. The title of this book is apt. Had I been identified, it could never have been used as a symbol of American fighting forces throughout the globe. Since it was used as a symbol at the peak of the Cold War, the advertising executive who handled the USO account had no way of knowing that I was not one of the 36,0000 who were KIA in the war. And he also presumed that if I survived the war I could never prove it to be me. The AP release stated the photograph was taken by a man with the initials JM. An elderly woman in the World Wide AP photo department said, ?Why, that?s Jimmy Martenhofff!?
Download or read book The Korean War written by Bruce Cumings and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.
Book Synopsis Plain Tales of the Korean Hills by : Samuel Taylor Kelly
Download or read book Plain Tales of the Korean Hills written by Samuel Taylor Kelly and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporal Sam Kelly arrived in Pusan Korea shortly after the armistice to witness firsthand the grim conditions that the Korean civilians faces. People were starving to the point they scavenge the trash dumps near army camps for food, villages were re-built with discarded ammo crates and other expended war materials. When the war was at its peak villagers hid their belonging in large clay jars buried in the hill sides hoping they would live to return and re-start their lives, some did. Those who survived came back land riddle with landmines as many locals were maimed attempting to cross open fields and old trails. Even with the worst of post war conditions the Korean people demonstrated a robust spirit to rebuild their country and return life back to normal as quickly as possible.
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Gerdine has finally been given command of a rifle company, an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of young officers and combat-hardened senior NCOs.
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and--fortunately--a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then--in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant--the "defecation strikes the oscillation." War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.
Book Synopsis Eden Altered- an Odyssey in Double Time by : Edgar Erdman
Download or read book Eden Altered- an Odyssey in Double Time written by Edgar Erdman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Andrew takes a young boy named Andrew Engleman from the summer of 1938 through World War Two and the Cold War, including the hot intervals in Korea and Vietnam and the swift expansion of terrorist activity on a global scale that led to punitive incursions into the hotbeds of the Middle East by coalitions of Western powers under the leadership of the United States. It also provides the reader with a glimpse of what the world may be like a few decades hence. The author hopes to promote greater understanding of the historical significance of the Korean War, which has been labeled "The Forgotten War". It was an undeclared war for which none of the belligerent parties, excepting North Korea, was fully prepared at the start. Close to 4.5 million human beings, less than half of whom were in military service, were killed, injured or reported missing during the 37 months and two days of its duration. North Korea, South Korea and China suffered the greatest number of casualties, both military and civilian. The total for the United States alone was 136,826 combatants. The Korean War brought us perilously close to a third world war that almost certainly would have been nuclear. It was the first war in which American infantry units were fully integrated, blacks and whites serving harmoniously together. And it was the only real war to have been fought under the aegis and flag of the United Nations. It stands out as a chapter in the annals of warfare that contains many important lessons for us all. And in this book it is the constant backdrop against which the protagonist's experiences and thought processes are highlighted as they unfold before our eyes.
Download or read book A Korean Odyssey written by Michael Gibb and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gibb embarks on an eccentric odyssey around the wind-swept islands off the coast of South Korea in search of life beyond K-pop, high-tech gadgetry, and nuclear missile tests. With well over three thousand islands to choose from, there was no shortage of destinations, all connected by the indomitable ferries that ply these choppy waters. From the fog-bound isles within hailing distance of North Korea to the charms of the southern archipelagos and the rocky outcrops deep in the lonely East Sea, Gibb discovers a region of Asia unjustly ignored by travelers. Gibb, a Korean speaker, encounters a cast of fascinating characters on his voyages: villagers who call these far-flung islands home, gnarled sea dogs crewing the ferries, gambling grannies, conscripts on desolate outposts, fishermen, rampaging tourist hordes, and poetry-loving taxi drivers. The journey packs in enough stories from maritime history, myths, culture, literature, and poliitics to fill a ship's cargo holds. A former Seoul-based journalist and author of A Slow Walk Through Jeong-dong, a history of one of Seoul's most intriguing neighborhoods, Gibb reveals a country that is both rapidly changing but firmly rooted in tradition and the past, one that's often in the news but rarely understood.
Download or read book Quiet Odyssey written by Mary Paik Lee and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in the early twentieth century, working as farm laborers, cooks, janitors, and miners. Lee recounts racism on the playground and the ravages of mercury mining on her father’s health, but also entrepreneurial successes and hardships surmounted with grace. With a new foreword by David K. Yoo, this edition reintroduces Quiet Odyssey to readers interested in Asian American history and immigration studies. The volume includes thirty illustrations and a comprehensive introduction and bibliographic essay by respected scholar Sucheng Chan, who collaborated closely with Lee to edit the biography and ensure the work was true to the author’s intended vision. This award-winning book provides a compelling firsthand account of early Korean American history and continues to be an essential work in Asian American studies.
Download or read book Write the Vision written by Won Sul Lee and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of a young Korean man who passed through the billows of national trials such as the Japanese colonial persecution, communist atrocities in North Korea, the ideological conflicts in South Korea, and the fratricidal war. "Why was I born?" "Why did I not perish at birth?" His personal odyssey in search of the meaning of life was cut short when he face death in the initial phase of the Korean War. When he opened his heart and believed in God, he was saved--physically and spiritually. He began to see the new vision in his life. He wrote it on a piece of paper.
Book Synopsis Ellwood’s Odyssey by : Marshall Garvey
Download or read book Ellwood’s Odyssey written by Marshall Garvey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellwood’s Odyssey is a unique historical fiction drama centered around people and families who face oppression and overcome it with success. The book begins with a man, Ellwood Washington, growing up in Los Angeles. Inspired by his father, he seeks greatness. His skills on the baseball field take him to the battlefield of the Korean War. His talents are required by his commanders to lead a perilous mission and capture a South Korean spy. These life events eventually lead to another hero that must overcome his uncertainties. His travels take him across the globe as he tries to answer questions about his family and capabilities. As it turns out, his odyssey of self-discovery is just beginning.
Book Synopsis Ellwood's Odyssey by : Marshall Garvey
Download or read book Ellwood's Odyssey written by Marshall Garvey and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellwood's Odyssey is a unique, historical fiction drama that explores the importance of legacy and heritage. Beginning with a daring rescue of a spy during Operation Tomahawk in the Korean War with an ending that will warm your heart.
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Yung-ro Pyun and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
