The devil's playground : inside America's defense of the deadly Korean DMZ / Gary Bloomfield.
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Bloomfield, Gary L. (författare)
- ISBN 9781493039029
- Publicerad: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2019]
- Engelska xiii, 214 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Overview: Still standing guard in Korea -- An Olympic hero -- DMZ incidents -- The minefield -- The tree incident -- Shangri-la : inside the world's deadliest border -- Agent Orange : a deadly legacy -- Cause of death unknown -- Chusok : Korea's day of thanksgiving -- Tit for tat at PanMunJom -- Tour to PanMunJom -- The longest, loneliest Christmas -- Infiltration -- The blue house raid -- The Pueblo incident -- Other incidents -- The children -- The DMZ's porous southern barrier fence -- Guard post ouellette -- Lifeline to Seoul -- The tunnels -- Shell-shocked -- Deciphering the myths of the Kim dynasty.
- "Gary Bloomfield presents here the first unvarnished accounts of the tension and the impact serving on the line can bring. Just one example: TI firefights are rare, US soldiers often hear North Korean soldiers and their laughter and their taunts, but they rarely see their tormentors"--
Ämnesord
- Delningen av Korea 1945 (sao)
- Militärbaser (sao)
- Military assistance, American -- Korea (South) (LCSH)
- Armed Forces. (fast)
- Military assistance, American. (fast)
- Military readiness. (fast)
- Military bases (lcsh)
- Korea (sao)
- Sydkorea (sao)
- Korean Demilitarized Zone (Korea) -- History. (LCSH)
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Korea (South) -- History. (LCSH)
- Korea (South) -- Defenses. (LCSH)
- Korea (North) -- Defenses. (LCSH)
- Korea (North) (fast)
- Korea (South) (fast)
- United States. (fast)
- Korea -- Korean Demilitarized Zone. (fast)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- S Militärväsen
Klassifikation
- DS921.7 (LCC)
- 355/.0330519 (DDC)
- S (kssb/8)
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