Honor Clean - Couverture souple

Barry, Bill

 
9780595259458: Honor Clean
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595259456 ISBN 13 : 9780595259458
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

For decades, Harry Truman's police action in Korea was called The Forgotten War. Suddenly it was remembered with Pulitzer-winning revelations of atrocities (murder) allegedly committed by American GIs at NoGun-ri, the Naktong River, and elsewhere. That was the newspaper version.Honor Clean tells a far different story. It is fiction, based on fact and the experience of Marines who fought from the Pusan Perimeter to the Chosin Reservoir and on into the savage months thereafter--which led to 2 years of trench warfare. About sixty thousand American troops were killed during the war (1950-1953), two hundred thousand were maimed, some twelve thousand were reported missing in action-and they still are. The book focuses on daily life and death during the most crucial and brutal days of the war. The characters tell the story, as they were then, how they are now. Two of them finally confront the accusations of murder and tell the tale which the newspapers did not. Of war, it is said: See one, you see them all. This is what it is, and what it does to kids on the battlefield.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For decades, Harry Truman's police action in Korea was called The Forgotten War. Suddenly it was remembered with Pulitzer-winning revelations of atrocities (murder) allegedly committed by American GIs at NoGun-ri, the Naktong River, and elsewhere. That was the newspaper version.Honor Clean tells a far different story. It is fiction, based on fact and the experience of Marines who fought from the Pusan Perimeter to the Chosin Reservoir and on into the savage months thereafter--which led to 2 years of trench warfare. About sixty thousand American troops were killed during the war (1950-1953), two hundred thousand were maimed, some twelve thousand were reported missing in action-and they still are. The book focuses on daily life and death during the most crucial and brutal days of the war. The characters tell the story, as they were then, how they are now. Two of them finally confront the accusations of murder and tell the tale which the newspapers did not. Of war, it is said: See one, you see them all. This is what it is, and what it does to kids on the battlefield.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bill Barry is a veteran award-winning journalist. He is the author of Ultimate Encounter. Born and raised in New York, Barry graduated from the University of Vermont, and lives in Florida. At age 19, he was a platoon sergeant serving with the 1st Marine Division during the Korean War.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595259456
ISBN 13 
9780595259458
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
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Personne responsable
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