The Korean War, by Max Hastings

The Korean War, by Max Hastings
Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1987
344 pages plus Chronology, Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Source Notes, Appendix, Index and 20 b&w photos
Library: 951.9042 HAS

Back Matter
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using perseonal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets - including the Chinese - Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War Crisis at home-the strategies and policies of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgeway and Bradley-and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Prologue: Task Force Smith
1. Origins of a Tragedy
2. Invasion
3. The West's Riposte
Washington, Tokyo, Seoul
4. Walker's War
Retreat to the Naktong
Dressing Ranks
The Pusan Perimeter
5. Inchon
6. To the Brink
7. The Coming of the Chinese
8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir
9. The Winter of Crisis
--The Big Bugout
-Washington and Tokyo
-The Arrival of Ridgway
10. Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur
11. The Struggles of the Imin
12. The Stony Road
Toward Stalemate
Panmunjon
The Cause
13. The Intelligence War
14. The Battle in the Air
15. The War on the Hills
16. The Prisoners
17. The Pursuit of Peace
-Koje-do
-"I Slall Go to Korea"
-The Last Act
18. Hindsight
Chronology
Notes and References
Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index

List of Maps
Korea
The Invasion of South Korea
From Inchon to Seoul
The Chinese Intervention
Retreat From the Chosin River
The Battle of the Imjin River

Photos
President Harry S Truman, looking at globe
Louis Johnson, Secretary for Defense, and Stephen T. Early visiting White House
John Foster Dulles, chief US delegate Warren Austin, Secretary of State Dean Acheson (plus six unidentified politicians in background)
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State
Joint Chiefs: Chairman General Omar Bradley, Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Operations, and General Lawton J Collins, Army Chief, arrive at a National Security Council Meeting
Douglas MacArthur
President Syngman Rhee of South Korea, August 1950
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
2 unidentified soldiers, 24th Division
1 political prisoner, unidentified
Old South Korean man and child
Two recognizable young women South Korean refugees, in column
General Walton H. "Bulldog" Walker with unidentified commander
American doctor tending Korean civilian casualty
MacArthur, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, Marine General Oliver P. Smith, at Inchon
Major General Edward M Almond, commander of X Corps, and Fleet Commander General Lemuel C. Shepard
Syngman Rhee and Douglas MacArthur
Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff
Two refugees, 2 Korean soldiers
Unidentified soldier in front of North/South Korean frontier sign
Marshal Pen Te Huai, commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea, with North Korea's Kim Il Sung
One unidentified soldier Chinese soldier
UN delegation: Admiral Turner C. Joy, other unidentified soldiers
General Matthew Ridgway, unidentified commander
Four unidentified Chinese soldiers, night advance
6 unidentified Chinese pilots
Mig 15 - 1st Communist jet fighter
Sabre aircraft
3 unidentified Chinese soldiers in tunnel
4 unidentified South Korean troops on march
General James Van Fleet, Lt General Maxwell D. Taylor, June 2, 1953. Supreme Commander General Mark Clark, General Paek Sun Yup, ROK Chief of Staff
Brigadier Francis T. Dodd
Brigadier Haydon L. Boatner
3 recognizable but unidentified GIs helping wounded down Pork Chop Hill
Dwight D Eisenhower, Syngman Rhee
Major General William K Harrison, General Nam Il (North Korea)
Major General William Dean
Harold Webb, Marine Andrew Condran, Morris Wills, Richard Corden, Clarence Adams, Jack Dunn, Andrew Fortuna, Bill White (American POWs who refused repatriation)