Name: Combat Actions in Korea
ISBN: 9781410224514

Russell A. Gugeler

Combat Actions in Korea

Andrew John Kinney

This book was written as part of the U.S. Army Historical series, but it is not dry history at all. It is nearly as compelling as This Kind of War by Fehrenbach, but much more carefully researched and documented. The "combat actions" that Gugeler describes are presented in a way that makes the book feel almost like a collection of short stories. Korea was the war that shattered, or at least dented, America's feeling of omnipotence that had persisted in the halcyon days after victory in WWII. Interestingly, the final years of the war looked an awful lot like WWI as the battle lines settled into stasis. I once had the opportunity to listen to General Richard Cavazos talk about his service in Korea, with the Chinese using bugles to signal attacks, and the Chinese soldiers coming out of their trenches to advance across the gap between US and Chinese lines into the teeth of machine-gun fire, mortars and artillery from the Americans. It absolutely could have been 1917 the way he described it.

Combat Actions in Korea

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