Photo Credit: United States Army - 23rd Infantry -
Heartbreak Ridge, October 1951

Korean War Bibliography
Acheson, Dean. The Korean War. New York: Norton, 1969.

Alexander, Bevin. Korea: The First War We Lost. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1986.

Appleman, Roy. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea. College Station, TX:
    Texas A&M Press, 1987.

Appleman, Roy.  Disaster In Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur. College Station, TX:
    Texas A&M  Press, 1989.

Appleman, Roy.  Escaping The Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950.
    College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1990.

Appleman, Roy. Ridgeway Duels In Korea. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1990.

Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953. New York: Times Books, 1987.

Bussey, Charles M. Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War. New York:
    Bassey's, 1991.

Cummings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate
    Regimes 1945-1947. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Cummings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York: Norton, Crowell,
    1977.

Detzer, David. Thunder of the Captians: The Short Summer in 1950. New Crowell, 1977.

Fehrenbach, T. R. This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the
    Korean War. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Goulden, Joseph C. Korea: The Untold Story of the War. New York: Times Books, 1982.

Halliday, Jon and Bruce Cummings. Korea: The Unknown War. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Hallion, Richard P. The Naval Air War In Korea. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation Press, 1986.

Hammel, Eric. Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1981.

Hastings, Max. The Korean War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Higgins, Trumbull. Korea and The Fall of MacArthur. New York: Oxford, 1960.

Hooton, E. R. The Greatest Tumult: The Chinese Civil War 1936-1949. New York: Brassey's,
    1991.

James, D. Clayton. Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea 1950-1953. New
    York: Free Press, 1993.

Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. New
    York: Knopf, 1986.

Knox, Donald. The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.

Knox, Donald and Alfred Coppel. The Korean War: Uncertain Victory. New York: Harcourt
    Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Lowe, Peter. The Origins of The Korean War. New York: Longmans, 1986.

MacDonald, Callum A. Korean: The War Before Vietnam. New York: Free Press, 1986.

Marshall, S. L. A. The River and The Gauntlet. New York: Time, 1953.

Oberdorfer, Don. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,
    1997.

Owen, Joseph R. Colder than Hell: A Marine Corps Rifle Company at the Chosin Reservior.
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.

Rees, David. Korea: The Limited War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964.

Ridgway, Matthew B. The Korean War. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.

Schaller, Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. New York: Columbia University
    Press, 1979.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. New York: Grove Press, 1938, 1968.

Snyder, Don. J. A Soldier's Disgrace. Dublin, NH: Yankee Books, 1987.

Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War. New York:
    Norton, 1959.

Stokesbury, John L. A Short History of the Korean War. New York: Morrow, 1988.

Whelen, Richard. Drawing The Line: The Korean War, 1950-1953. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Whiting, Allen S. China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War. Palo Alto:
        Stanford University Press, 1960.

Wilson, Jim. Retreat, Hell! We're Just Attacking in Another Direction. New York: Morrow,
    1988.

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