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Book club edition. From the front flap: "a masterwork of military history that combines battlefield-level detail with command-level history as well as the domestic and international political dimensions of the war. [it] explores every phase of the war: the slaughter of the first undertrained troops to arrive in Korea; Eighth Army's desperate early retreat to the Pusan Perimeter and its heroic stand there; the dramatic amphibious landing at Inchon; the massive entry of the Chinese Communist forces; the controversial retreat of Eighth Army and its eventual victorious comeback. As in all wars in American history, the main weight of the fighting was carried by the infantry: Army soldiers and U.S. Marines. The contribution of the Marines has been generously described in books and film. The far greater -- and decisive -- contribution of the Army soldiers, who suffered 85 percent casualties, has never been told in full. "The Forgotten War" fills that gap in military history superbly. Using meticulous research in official Army records and hundreds of interviews with participants, Blair tells the story of the Army's first crucial year in Korea virtually week by week and occasionally day by day." Photgraphs, maps, sources, notes, index. A massive book at 1136 pp. Map endpapers. Very good in a good only dust jacket. (edgewear and chipping to dj. .

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