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The Coldest Winter America and the Korean War [Audiobook]
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The Coldest Winter America and the Korean War [Audiobook] by David Halberstam
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1415944148 | MP3@64 kbps | 33h 42m | 927 MB
Narrator: Scott Brick
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1415944148 | MP3@64 kbps | 33h 42m | 927 MB
Narrator: Scott Brick
The Coldest Winter is a successor to Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter the best book he ever wrote, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.
Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures – Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order.