Korean War book rec for rdrama

@FrozenChosen thoughts?

Someone please post the hilarious chinese propaganda film clips on Chosin

I am too lazy

Oh yeah, this guy Paik Sun-Yup wrote a book. Read it in high school and it really made me respect Koreans' abilities to kill commies. He was there from the beginning and rose up through the ranks so it gives you some idea of the South Korean perspectives at both junior and senior officer levels. It wasn't your typical war memoir that you'd get from Britain where some catty b-word is making snide remarks about us because his country is poor and lost its empire. He actually acknowledges how much America helped, the same way that Ridgway tells us how much we depended on the South Koreans.

@FrozenChosen There's a biography of you.

In addition to something like this, I would recommend Gen. Ridgway's book about his time there as MacArthur's successor. He was at the very top in a position to actually know what decisions were being made up there and why. He was not into politics so he's got a great perspective on stuff like MacArthur getting fired, whether we should have expanded the war, etc.

This is the guy who was so honest he named his attacks "Operation Killer", "Operation Ripper". Some bureaucrat tried to explain to him that for political reasons you can't choose names that. He was like "but our objective in that operation was just to kill a lot of Chinese". After that the next one was "Operation Meatgrinder". They stopped letting him name operations after that.

Also he had the guts early on to say we shouldn't go into Vietnam. Not because he was soft on communism or something but because he understood this was a terrible place for us to fight a war.

I would also recommend The Korean War by Max Hastings and The Last Stand of Fox Company

I have that already though

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