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UNINA9910455244703321 |
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Autore |
Edwards Paul M |
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Titolo |
The Korean War [[electronic resource] /] / Paul M. Edwards |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2006 |
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1-282-40629-9 |
9786612406294 |
0-313-02771-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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American Soldiers' Lives |
The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 |
Korean War, 1950-1953 - Participation, American |
Electronic books. |
United States Armed Forces History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; 1 Overview; 2 Phases and Campaigns; 3 Preparing to Fight; 4 Learning to Be a Soldier; 5 Learning to Fight with World War II Weapons; 6 Life on the Front; 7 Care of the Wounded and the Dead; 8 Away from the Front Lines: Division Rear and the Train; 9 View of Friend and Enemy; 10 Media, Morale, and Myths; 11 Carrying On; 12 Coming Home; 13 Remembering War; 14 Conclusion: Inheritances and Myths; Bibliography; Index |
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Despite the American tendency to bypass it, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was a watershed in American history. It was in Korea, for the first time, that the United States committed its armed forces to limiting an expansion, by Communist forces, which many believed was designed to take over the world; it was also the first war that a world organization, the United Nations, played a military role. The conflict in Korea was a war that was fought in hardship and danger by the grunt, the man and woman in the field, bringing an end to the myth that possession of an atomic bomb made conventional w |
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UNISA996393678303316 |
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Autore |
Calamy Edmund <1600-1666.> |
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Englands looking-glasse [[electronic resource] ] : presented in a sermon, preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, December 22, 1641 / / by Edmund Calamy, B.D. and preacher at Aldermanbury, London |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Printed by I. Raworth, for Chr. Meredith, and are to be sold at the Crane in Pauls-Churchyard, 1642 |
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Fast-day sermons - England |
Great Britain Politics and government 1625-1649 Sermons Early works to 1800 |
Great Britain History Charles I, 1625-1649 Sermons Early works to 1800 |
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Monografia |
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"Published by order of the said House." |
Reproduction of original in: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. |
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