Voices from the Korean War: Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers

In three days the number of so-called ‘volunteers’ reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place.”—from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People’s Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho’s experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War—American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese—this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers’ personal stories. The personal accounts . . . are sharp and interesting. They offer a keen insight into the camaraderie, suffering, hardship and even humor from both sides of the war. They stories hit as hard as a massed infantry attack and vividly portray the brutality of war. -- On Point Renders a balanced snapshot of the Korean War and its associated horrors. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice What sets apart this history book is the personal touch of interviewing participants on both sides of the conflict. --WTBF Before the memoirs begin, there are six chapters that summarize the course of the war better than most thick volumes devoted only to that subject. Military -- Military The personal accounts . . . are sharp and interesting. They offer a keen insight into the camaraderie, suffering, hardship and even humor from both sides of the war. They stories hit as hard as a massed infantry attack and vividly portray the brutality of war. --On Point There have been anthologies of oral histories of the Korean War before, but until now the reminiscences of Chinese and Korean combatants have not been available in an English-language publication. --Military Trader [This book] is a must-read for those who participated in the Vietnam War, or for just planin military history buffs. --The Union Leader Before the memoirs begin, there are six chapters that summarize the course of the war better than most thick volumes devoted only to that subject. --Military “A fine book of tragedy, heroism, and survival that will hopefully spark a deeper interest in this pivotal conflict.”--Army History “A work that gives texture and depth to the more sanitized and generalized narratives that begin and end at the 38th Parallel.”--Army History “Voices from the Korean War is a fine book of tragedy, heroism, and survival that will hopefully spark a deeper interest in this pivotal conflict.”--Bryan Gibby, Army History Li\u27s book is a powerful reminder that it was individuals with thier own schemes of life and with their own dreams and hopes who did the fighting for a complex mixture of reasons. --Andreas Hilger, H-net Reviewshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_military_history/1036/thumbnail.jp

A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days

For roster see New Hampshire. Adjutant-General. Complete roster of the 8th Regt. (189-?

History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion

Contains complete roster

The navy as the ultimate guarantor of freedom in 1940?

Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2211 on 07.20.2017 by CS (TIS)The widely held public view that Britain was saved from invasion during 1940 because the RAF denied the Luftwaffe control of the air is challenged here. Although the heroism of `the few' is not in question, the ability of Fighter Command to act as a serious physical barrier to German plans is refuted with the Luftwaffe holding the initiative between 24 August and 6 September and its ability to bomb Britain by night for months virtually unopposed. Archival and other evidence show that even without adequate fighter cover, the Royal Navy retained considerable potential to resist German air attacks on the Home Fleet and local flotillas. The traditional importance of `seapower' is strongly reasserted with evidence from American newspapers and German admirals revealing preoccupations with the Royal Navy's control of the sea in the summer of 1940. Britain's negotiating position with Germany was therefore stronger than generally assumed. The relative position of Sir Hugh Dowding and Sir Charles Forbes in the British national pantheon is revised with the relatively unknown Admiral Forbes emerging as a forgotten hero. An undue focus on the air campaigns of 1940 only emerged as an Anglo-American media construct after American fears over Axis naval domination began to ease. As Churchill wished to fight-on, he glamorised the exploits of `the few' and allowed the suffering of bombed civilians to be paraded in front of a cautious American public. Churchill's desperation ensured some British technological achievements overwhelmingly connected with the air campaigns were exaggerated in order to `buy' sympathy and vital logistical support. This new narrative of victory distributes the credit more fairly among participants and calls for Battle of Britain monuments to recognise the sailors' contributions, especially those of the Merchant Navy whose human losses far exceeded those of `the few' at this crucial period

Soldiers from Experience: The Emergence of Tactical Culture in Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63

This study examines the organic emergence and evolution of discernible patterns in the tactical behavior of Major General William T. Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee across its first year operating within the western theater of the American Civil War. It analyzes the ways in which specific experiences and patterns of meaning-making within the corps's regiments and batteries led to the emergence of a distinctive corps-level “tactical culture.” This concept, introduced for the first time within the dissertation, is defined as a collection of shared, historically-derived, normative ideas, beliefs, assumptions, and habitual behaviors that inform a subordinate military command’s particular approach to the prosecution of its assigned objectives on or off the battlefield. The dissertation employs the research methodologies of “new military history” to inform an older “traditional” historiography in an effort to frame what might be called a “new operational history.” While historians frequently assert that generals somehow impart their character to their commands, this dissertation argues that the reverse was the case within Sherman's corps. Although Sherman habitually sought a frontal penetration of entrenched Rebel lines, a combination of factors – most especially the heavily wooded terrain of the Mississippi Valley – repeatedly prevented his corps from achieving such objectives. As a result of their perpetual failure, those in the ranks lost confidence whenever called upon to assault enemy lines, leaving Sherman with “no troops that can be made to assault.” Instead, heavily cluttered Western battlefields rewarded the employment of open-order “clouds” of skirmishers. While these “clouds” could not breach fortified Rebel positions, they could suppress enemy units and allow for maneuver elsewhere. Simultaneously, repeated experiences of success in raiding operations inspired an embrace of “war in earnest” tactics among those in the ranks traumatized from bloody repulse on the battlefield. By 1864, the corps reliably displayed a tactical culture borne of its particular past experiences which helped to shape its behavior during the campaigns for Atlanta, Savannah, and the Carolinas. An awareness of this tactical culture informed Sherman's employment of the command, as well as his larger operational art during his famous late war campaigns.Doctor of Philosoph

The British Army in Ireland 1961-1921 : a social and cultural history

The primary aim of this work is to provide a social and a cultural history of British soldiers who served in Ireland during the revolutionary period stretching from the Easter Rising of 1916 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. As such, it represents the first concerted attempt to view the period though the eyes of the soldiery and both challenge and corroborate 'received' views of the military's role in the conflict. Previous accounts have tended to cast the military in a peripheral role; this study restores troops to the centre ground. In so doing, it will demonstrate that soldiers had a crucial role to play in shaping both military policy and (by reaction) the nature of the rebel campaign. It will also reveal the military's part in influencing Anglo-Irish relations for the worse by contributing to a culture of vigilantism in the Crown forces.By tapping into a wealth of previously unexploited sources including soldiers' memoirs, letters, war diaries and regimental journals, the study will explore soldiers' quotidian service life and bring fresh perspectives to the military history of the period. It will explore central themes such as isolation, endurance, recrimination and revenge. A further chapter (incorporating post-conflict analyses) will uncover how these experiences formed the soldiers' assessments of the political and military aspects of the period, as well as their opinion of the Irish nation and people.Above all, this study will build on approaches which move away from the paradigm of (narrative based) military-political studies of the period which have tended to obscure the role both of individuals and of non-elites. In so doing, it will restore the importance of 'fighting' and 'front-line' experience as a major determinant of the conflict and the period

Diary of a march through Sinde and Afghanistan, with the troops under the command of General Sir William Nott and sermons delivered on various occasions during the campaign of 1842

British relations with Afghanistan during the 19th century and an account of the First Anglo-Afghan Wa