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4 videodiscs (22 hrs., 16 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"After 60 years this game-changing war still resonates today with the US troop presence in South Korea and the nascent nuclear threat from the North. This collection of documentary footage chronicles the roots of the conflict as it blossomed into a protracted war that took a heavy toll in American blood and treasure. The immediacy of combat and major conflicts are brought vividly to life capturing the impact of this war on a generation and an entire...
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As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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xxvii, 381 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Drawing on archival and other primary sources in Russia, China, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, the author moves beyond national histories to provide the first comprehensive understanding of the Korean War as an international conflict from the perspective of all of the major actors.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
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417 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a...
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x, 189 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 26 cm
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This reference work provides information on all known military operations carried out under United Nations command as part of the Korean War. Entries are arranged alphabetically by operation name and are divided into five sections: primarily ground operations, primarily air operations, primarily sea operations, special operations, and covert and clandestine operations --Provided by publisher.
15) Lark and Termite
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Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children -- Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance -- who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A comedy-drama about a smooth operating master sergeant who is constantly getting his hero-worshiping, protege out of situations. Add a real-life Lolita teen, and the two become part of an intriguing love triangle.
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xvi, 605 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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More than sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War is still not over--yet it has become a forgotten episode in American history. Now, Sheila Miyoshi Jager combines international events with previously unknown personal accounts to create a comprehensive new history of that war. From American, Korean, Soviet and Chinese perspectives, she explores its origins, development and global implications....
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