korean war, 1950-1953

During the Korean civil war, sixteen-year-old Lee Haemi lives in a refugee camp in Busan, South Korea. Each night, she leaves her makeshift home to be with her childhood friend, Yun Kyunghwan, not knowing that Kyunghwan's older, wealthier cousin, Yun Jisoo, is determined to marry her. Both men are conscripted to go to war, and both returned injured. After the war, Jisoo asks Haemi to marry him, and seeing the marriage as the best way to protect herself and her family, she agrees. As he watches Haemi grow into a wife and then a mother, Kyunghwan finds himself working demeaning jobs while trying to rise through the modernization and upheaval after the war. When he reenters Haemi?s life, she is torn between her passions and her duties.

Korean War veterans recount their memories of America in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when young men from all over the country were being shipped off to defend South Korea against the advancing Red Army in the north. Recalls the 'un-won' war that never ended, no one even wanted to call it a war: it was 'the Korean conflict' or a 'police action.' Finally, it was called the Forgotten War.

"Explains . . . the Soviet influence on Japan's surrender in World War II to the creation of the two Korean countries we know today, while exploring how these circumstances brought us to the current strained political landscape"--Amazon.

Three young U.S. Army doctors struggle to make the best of a dangerous and challenging situation when they are assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War.

Presents the untold story of Master Sergeant Donald Nichols, and how he became a spy master, complete with his own secret base, covert army, and rules during the Korean War.

The Cold War experienced its first armed clash in the Korean War, resulting in the United States gaining a new understanding of the importance of Asia in the growing global conflict between communism and democracy. Through thoughtful narrative supported by fully documented quotes this title begins with A Brief History of the Korean War and then examines these questions: How Did Post-World War II Tensions Set the Stage for the Korean War? How Did the Korean War Advance the Desegregation of the US Military? How Did American Foreign Policy Change in the Aftermath of the Korean War? How Did the Lack of a Clear-cut Victory Shape the Two Koreas?.