Best Korean War Novels - April 2024

Scars and Stars

.A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.Page by page, Cat imparts the story of the album to young Austin, using a series of seemingly mundane and unconnected objects to tell the story of the brothers Roberts... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00GOANQEM
• ASIN: B00GOANQEM

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Com... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385541155
• ASIN: 0385541155
• ISBN: 0385541155
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as Frozen Chosin. June 1950. The North Korean army invades South Korea, intent on uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops, and together they drive the North Koreans back to their bor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345549228
• ASIN: 0345549228
• ISBN: 0345549228
• Brand: RANDOM HOUSE
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Forgotten Valor: A Novel of the Korean War (The Jonas Stuyvesant Saga Book 1)

An untested lieutenant. An unwinnable war. An impossible choice that could tear his platoon apart. Korea, 1950. Lt. Jonas Stuyvesant’s privileged upbringing hadn’t prepared him for the hardships of war. But when North Korea launches a surprise attack, he and his ragtag platoon suddenly find themselves on the front lines of a war not even Washington expected. And instead of North Korean peasants armed with pitchforks, Jonas and his fellow soldiers find themselves up against armored Soviet tanks and battle-tested hardened soldiers. Outgunned and outnumbered, his platoon retreats from Osan th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GY3N4VF
• ASIN: B07GY3N4VF

The Marines of Autumn: A Novel of the Korean War

• ASIN: 0312280815
• ASIN: 0312280815
• ISBN: 9780312280819
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TO... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455563927
• ASIN: 1455563927
• ISBN: 9781455563920
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea (History of War)

In the Korean War’s unique combat environment, significant battles took place that profoundly affected the future of air warfare. Crimson Sky examines in detail twenty of the most interesting and representative aerial actions of the war.

• ASIN: 1574888412
• ASIN: 1574888412
• ISBN: 1574888412
• Brand: Brand: Potomac Books Inc.
• Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc.

The Second Korean War

Two Russian agents discover a missing nuclear weapon was hidden in an American city by North Korea. Another nuclear weapon nears Seoul in a tunnel built by North Koreans. And North Korea's new military dictator launches an all-out invasion. Will Seoul or Pyongyang be the new capital of a united Korea?

• ASIN: B078T3YHGW
• ASIN: B078T3YHGW

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Brand: Crown
• Manufacturer: Crown

Targets: A Vietnam War Novel

“Targets has the smell of cordite and fear on its pages. I read it in one sitting and lost a night’s sleep over it. The novel is that good." -Walter F. Murphy, author of The Vicar of ChristFrom retired Marine Don McQuinn comes Targets. A Vietnam War novel unlike any other, this story will take you inside the counter-intelligence efforts in Saigon and give you a rare glimpse at the iconic conflict.Landing in Saigon in 1969, Marine Major Charles Taylor is faced with a city ravaged by decades of war. Its streets and alleyways teem with refugees, soldiers, and corruption. Soon after arrival, T... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06W57DHBB
• ASIN: B06W57DHBB
• Manufacturer: Raven's Call Press

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. Halberstam gives us a mas... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0786888628
• ASIN: 0786888628
• ISBN: 0786888628
• Brand: David Halberstam
• Manufacturer: Hachette Books

Soldiers and Marines Saga (The Soldiers and Marines Saga - the first three books of this exciting saga about a soldier at war.)

This is a trilogy of Martin Archer's first three novels about the hardships and the exciting and continuous action adventures of a young combat soldier when he stays on active duty and rises in rank and recognition. War in the East and Israel's Next War are the fourth and fifth books in the series.

• ASIN: B014IFZGTM
• ASIN: B014IFZGTM
• Manufacturer: Martin Archer

Words from the Heart (An Amish Letters Novel)

Her fingertips brushed against something else in the box of doilies. She lifted a bundle of letters, neatly tied with a thin red ribbon . . .Ivy Yoder hasn’t heard from John King in over a year. She knows it’s time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry, but she’s humiliated to be one of the oldest single women in her Amish community of Birch Creek. When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the distraction.Noah Schlabach isn’t from Birch Creek, or even Ohio. His job as an auctioneer takes him around the country and away from a ty... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718082567
• ASIN: 0718082567
• ISBN: 0718082567
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Majors (Brotherhood of War)

Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly. To others, like the Majors, it pointed to the heights of glory...

• ASIN: 0515089958
• ASIN: 0515089958
• ISBN: 0515089958
• Brand: Griffin, W. E. B.
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Island of Sea Women: A Novel

A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. Despite their love for ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501154850
• ASIN: 1501154850
• ISBN: 1501154850
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Frozen Hours : A Novel of the Korean War

"June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a

• UPC: 55163087
• Rating: 4.667

The Marines of Autumn : A Novel of the Korean War

Brought to Korea to monitor Chinese transmissions, Captain Tom Verity is thrust into MacArthur's last daring foray into the mountains. Days later he is part of a massive retreat which opens the captain's eyes to

• UPC: 35988173
• Rating: 4.5

The Frozen Hours : A Novel of the Korean War

The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one

• UPC: 55341195
• Rating: 4.667

Born Again! As a United States Marine! A Korean War Novel - eBook

Up from the troopships hold, a cold fog hung like death in the darkness between them and the coast of North Korea. The damp, cold night smelled of salt spray and burning diesel, as the

• UPC: 137319210

The Marine : A Novel of War from Guadalcanal to Korea

In his latest soldier's tale, Brady tracks Col. Oliver Cromwell's illustriouscareer from Guadalcanal to

• UPC: 52841210

War and Peace (Complete Version, Best Navigation, Active TOC) - eBook

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha,

• UPC: 613145885
• Rating: 4.203

Scars from the Forgotten Korean War - eBook

The year is 1952 in Korea when there are only three survivors of a 56-man US Marine unit after a nightlong series of Chinese suicide attacks on an outpost. Severe mutilations render one of the

• UPC: 317519287

More Stories of Life and Tales of the Korean War - eBook

The tales in parts one and two are a continuation of those found in the authors book Stories of Life and Tales of the Korean War, dealing with the human condition in peace and war.

• UPC: 635007206

H. G. Wells: Best Novels (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, etc) - eBook

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) — known as H. G. Wells — was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks

• UPC: 240332586

H. G. Wells: Best Novels (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, etc) - eBook

In this collection you will find : Novels -The Time Machine -The War of the Worlds -The Invisible Man -The Island of Doctor Moreau -The Sleeper Awakes -A Modern Utopia -The Wheels of Chance -The

• UPC: 796865912