The epic scale of the war’s disruption comes into focus through the stories of a survivor of the 1950 slaughter, who lost both her children to American bullets a Maryknoll nun and physician who tended to refugees in the beleaguered southern port of Pusan, where Allied troops were nearly forced into the sea in the first weeks of the war and a North Korean pilot who survived dogfights in “MiG Alley.” Hanley also profiles the U.S., Chinese, and North Korean military leaders who directed wild swings of momentum in the war’s early months, and, later, the grinding trench warfare that cost tens of thousands of lives as truce talks dragged on. troops, captures the devastating human toll of the Korean War. In this sweeping and well-sourced history, Associated Press reporter Hanley (coauthor, The Bridge at No Gun Ri), who won a Pulitzer Prize for helping to unearth the 1950 massacre of South Korean civilians by panicked U.S.
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