The Korean War, Max Hastings
The Korean War, Max Hastings
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The Korean War

Author: Max Hastings

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 17 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950.Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets, including the Chinese, Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at homethe strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradleyand shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

About Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph, then as editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam, The Secret War, Catastrophe, and All Hell Let Loose. Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brett on May 02, 2021

This was the first Max Hastings book I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sir Max Hastings did a great job of telling the backstory of Korea as a sphere of influence for Russia, China, and Japan as early as the 1890s. The Japanese had imperial influence on Korea as early as 1904 until the US milit......more

Goodreads review by Igor on January 06, 2020

A thrilling, compelling read. Max Hastings tells a visceral story of the first "international" conflict of the post-WW2 era. It's not the first, but it's the one that shattered the illusion and naivety that was the foundation of the UN, it was the war that crystallized and defined the boundaries of t......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 28, 2024

The Korean War is often called the “forgotten war,” and at first glance it is difficult to understand how it earned such a label. What began as an invasion of South Korea by North Korea spiraled quickly into the deadliest conflict of the Cold War, one that engaged the armed forces of the United Stat......more

Goodreads review by Boudewijn on September 25, 2021

Well, what can I say. Another Hastings's masterpiece. You know what you get: an interesting book about one of the lesser known wars in the last century. Hastings shows how quickly the might of the American army was diminished after WOII, how brutal the regime of Rhee was and MacArthur's megalomania.......more

Goodreads review by Urey on October 31, 2014

I have mixed emotions - Hastings is a superb historian and one I recommend. His wide view treatment of the Korean War is excellent. He lays out the political, military and ideological factors that led to the war and sustained it for the three years it ran, the inextricably interlaced influences of t......more

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