Voices from the Korean War

2014-04-23
 |  History
Voices from the Korean War

Author: Richard Peters

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN: 9780813145945

Category: History

Page: 312

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"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War -- American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese -- this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.

For Those who Served

2020
 |  Korean War, 1950-1953
For Those who Served

Author: Michael H. Pazeian

Publisher:

ISBN: 9798642808450

Category: Korean War, 1950-1953

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"Veterans stories as told in the first person from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War." -- Title page.

Voices from the Vietnam War

2010-05-07
 |  History
Voices from the Vietnam War

Author: Xiaobing Li

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN: 9780813139654

Category: History

Page: 296

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The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.

The Korean War

2006
 |  Korean War, 1950-1953
The Korean War

Author: Paul M. Edwards

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0313332487

Category: Korean War, 1950-1953

Page: 250

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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 warfare unnecessary. Training, usually with World II weapons, life on the front, care of the wounded and the dead, and coming home, are just some of the topics covered in The Korean War. In addition, a timeline of events, a helpful topically arranged bibliography of recommended sources, and illustrations, including many photos taken by the soldiers themselves, bring this period into full focus. Among the issues covered are: The background leading to the war. Raising the military forces to carry out the dictates of both the U.S. government and the United Nations, often by recalling soldiers who had only recently been mustered out of World War II service. The difficulties of adjusting to life under both garrison and combat environments in an unfamiliar part of the world for most, where temperatures could range from freezing cold to unbearably hot. Recreation, religion, entertainment for the troops, and soldiers' efforts to help Koreans hurt by the war. Treatment of the wounded, improved by advances in evacuation methods, the development of the helicopter, and the creation of the Mobile Army Surgical Unit, or MASH. The hard time that veterans had in returning to an American society that often ignored their accomplishments.

Voices from the Korean War

2011-01-12
 |  Biography & Autobiography
Voices from the Korean War

Author: Douglas Rice

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 1450282571

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 572

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Voices from the Korean War presents a collection of first-person accounts of those who served in the Korean War. The Korean War is often dubbed the “Forgotten War,” although more than 36,000 soldiers died in this three-year conflict. In Voices from the Korean War, author Douglas Rice makes certain the men who served are not forgotten as he shares first-person accounts from seventy-nine soldiers who fought in the war from June of 1950 through July of 1953. Voices from the Korean War follows the soldiers as they trek and fly over the mountainous terrain of the Korean peninsula. Through these eyewitness accounts, hear a soldier describe what happened to a small group of North Korean villagers who refused to divulge their location. Listen in as a wounded soldier tells a flight nurse the story of how he was rescued by American soldiers as he lay wounded in a North Korean home. Learn how some prisoners of war walked their imaginary dogs to irritate their captors. This compilation of different soldiers’ perspectives conveys what it must have been like to be directly involved in the conflict. It serves as a reminder of the challenges and the sacrifices the soldiers made in the name of war.

War Stories

2020
 | 
War Stories

Author: Shauna Mulligan

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1356861120

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Ethnographic and storytelling methodology is crucial in the representation of Indigenous veterans and their experiences because these narratives reside at the intersection where military and Indigenous cultures meet. There are a multitude of political movements that veterans involve themselves in to benefit their fellow veterans, with stories and ethnographic details helping to solidify the teaching inherent within their shared experience. For many non-Indigenous veterans, military culture embodies connection and is a central reason they find meaning in service. For Indigenous veterans however, it is their Indigenous cultures that forges and connects them with other veterans, creating community and meaning in service itself. The ways in which Indigenous veterans use their shared experiences in the military - and the differences past and present - is one of the main interests presented in this thesis. It explains the importance of peer-to-peer relationships within Indigenous veteran's communities, it informs us of their time in service from the particular lens of Indigenous peoples, and the roles they take now within their communities. To provide further context, it is crucial to add the history of World War 1 and 2, along with the Korean Conflict, as there are shifts from those years into what indigenous veterans experience today. Changes to the Indian Act in 1951 allowed Indigenous veterans to provide the necessary peer-to-peer support fundamental for cultural survivance, transmission and experiential understanding. Including a breakdown of Indigenous involvement within the Korean Conflict and beyond, the pool of interviewees for this thesis was drawn from United Nations Peacekeeping and conflict operations of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. It gathers testimonies and narratives from interviewees who span across the various trades, ranks, genders, divisions, and in most cases, Nations. This thesis includes the author's own experiences with discovering the roles veterans play within the broader community, Veterans organizations and culture.

Fountains of Wisdom

2017-11
 | 
Fountains of Wisdom

Author: Kec

Publisher:

ISBN: 0692110860

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A collection of veterans' personal accounts of military service during WWII and Korean War.

Voices of the Korean Comfort Women

2023-01-17
 |  History
Voices of the Korean Comfort Women

Author: Chungmoo Choi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000750065

Category: History

Page: 309

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An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma. In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer’s observational notes, thereby providing poignant contextual information. This English translation of vital oral history, underpinned with theoretically informed guides, will be invaluable to students and scholars of Asian history, the Pacific War and wartime sexual violence against women as well as those interested in historical trauma and human rights.

China’s War in Korea

2019-11-05
 |  History
China’s War in Korea

Author: Xiaobing Li

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9789813296756

Category: History

Page: 245

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This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what became the war’s common name in China. It also looks into the relatively neglected historical factors which have redefined China’s security concerns and strategic culture. Using newly available sources from China and the former Soviet Union, the book considers how interactive the parameters of defense changes were in a foreign war against Western powers, how flexible Chinese strategy was in the context of its intervention, and how expansive its strategic cultural repertoire was at the crucial moment to “defend the country.” Providing a re-examination of China’s military decisions and strategy evolution, this text narrates the story of successive generations of Chinese leaders and provides a key insight into security issues in China and Northeast Asia today.

Voices Almost Lost

2011-11-28
 |  History
Voices Almost Lost

Author: Vickie Spring

Publisher: Author House

ISBN: 9781463445706

Category: History

Page: 250

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When Vickie Spring promised her dad who had served in both WWII and the Korean War, that she would one day write his story and the others with whom he served, she never imagined the challenges that lay ahead of her. After months of searching, thirteen men were found that had fought in Korea alongside her dad. Vickie has compiled these brave and noble mens personal accounts of their experiences during the Korean War. Their stories are heartfelt and compelling. Each story will be given to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. for generations to experience each mans laughter, pain, and suffering. Here are their stories

Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork

2018-09-19
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork

Author: Samantha Senda-Cook

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351190459

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 378

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Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork compiles foundational articles highlighting the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism. Presenting a wide variety of approaches, the volume begins with a section establishing the starting points for the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism and then examines five topics: Space & Place; Public Memory; Publics and Counterpublics; Advocacy and Activism; and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Within these sections, readers evaluate a full spectrum of methods, from interviews, to oral histories, to participant observation. This volume is invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of rhetorical criticism, rhetorical fieldwork, and qualitative methods looking for a comprehensive overview of the development of rhetorical fieldwork.