From Pusan to Panmunjom : Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yup, Paik Sun.

Series:

Memories of War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, Korean.

Paek, So?n-yo?p, 1920-.

Local Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, Korean.

Paek, So?n-yo?p, 1920-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc., 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The memoir of the twenty-nine year-old man who became South Korea's first four-star general. With photographs and a foreword by the commanders of U.S. forces in the war.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Maps; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 The Long, Long Summer; Kaesong Has Fallen; The Munsan Defense Line Crumbles; Across the Han by Raft; 2 Retreat to the Naktong: 200 Miles of Hell; Delaying Actions; No Place to Run; Bloody Fighting at the Naktong; Reversing the Tide of War; 3 We Lead the Way North; Back the Way We Came; Attacking Pyongyang ""Patton's Way''; The Greatest Day of My Life; Pyongyang Is Free; The Chinese Trap; Our Last Hours in Unsan: The Bloody Autumn Night; 4 Dashed Hopes; Rest and Recuperation

The Christmas Offensive: Blind March to DisasterThe Wretched Withdrawal of January 4, 1951; Seesaw Battles on the Central Front; 5 Back to the 38th Parallel; Spring Breezes Blow on the Han River; War Rations, Courtesy of General MacArthur; Departing the 1st Division; Withdraw or Fight to the Death; The Collapse of III Corps; Concentrated Training for the ROK Army; 6 What Will We Lose and What Will We Gain?; Representing Korea at Armistice Talks No Korean Wants; The Truce Talks Falter; Return to the Front; Task Force Paik Hammers Guerrillas; Quiet Returns to the Chiri

Organizing II Corps: Symbol of the New Army7 The Road to Four Stars and Army Chief of Staff; A New Honor; Solving Ration Problems and Stacks of Other Issues; Korea's First Four-Star General; The War Enters a New Phase; Releasing Anticommunist POWs, Startling the World; Clutching for the High Ground; 8 The War Ends at Last; Did the War Make Unification More Remote?; Chief of Staff Again; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; The Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781597974837

1597974838

OCLC:

755574157