The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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Author David Halberstam
LanguageEnglish
SubjectKorean War, 1950–1953 – United States
GenreHistory
PublishedSeptember 25, 2007 (Hyperion Books, New York)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pagesxi, 719 pp (first edition)
ISBN 1401300529
OCLC 137324872
951.904/240973
LC Class DS919 .H35 2007
LCCN   2007-1635

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War is a non-fiction book by the author David Halberstam. It was published posthumously in 2007, after his sudden death in a traffic collision at the age of 73. [1] [2]

Contents

The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2008.

Subject

The book, written more than half a century after the Korean War, looks at the war from a different perspective than previously written works on the war by various authors.

Quotes pay homage to an earlier Korean War author T. R. Fehrenbach, and The Coldest Winter mentions Fehrenbach's combat experience, something that Fehrenbach never mentions for himself in his seminal work, This Kind of War.

Reception

Charles J. Hanley, in a 2017 review of a different book, was critical of the lack of attention paid to civilian casualties in The Coldest Winter. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Millett, Allan (April 2008). "The coldest winter: America and the korean war". Naval History: 68–69. ProQuest   203468041.
  2. ↑ Halberstam, David (2007), "Opening a window on the society" , Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 12–23, doi:10.1057/9780230592728_2, ISBN   978-1-349-27981-4 , retrieved 2020-03-08
  3. ↑ Hanley, Charles J. (2017). "Korea's Grievous War by Su-kyoung Hwang" . Human Rights Quarterly . 39 (3): 746–750. doi:10.1353/hrq.2017.0039. ISSN   1085-794X.
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