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Title: Comprehensive history with personal insights
Review: An excellent one-volume treatment of the 'forgotten war'. Hastings tells the story of the bitter battles at close range on impossible terrain in brutal weather. Some 42,000 US soldiers died in just three years' fighting. The US attack into North Korea brought the Chinese into the war and caused serious consideration to be given to the use of The Bomb. Hastings' use of interviews with some two hundred veterans, from both sides, including Chinese, gives his work its veracity. He also covers the political battles at home, including the big one between Truman and the deluded megalomaniac MacArthur.An excellent addition to your history bookshelf.
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