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The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea---and the Marines---from Extinction
Written by Bill Sloan
Narrated by Michael Prichard
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The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months-a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on exclusive author interviews, unpublished memoirs, and oral histories, the book recounts the most dramatic and historically important portion of the war from the perspective of the soldiers and Marines on the ground. Bill Sloan takes the listener into muddy foxholes, across endless rice paddies, and up hotly contested ridges with the men who fought and fell there.
Author
Bill Sloan
Bill Sloan is a respected military historian and author of more than a dozen books, including Brotherhood of Heroes: The Ultimate Battle. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
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Reviews for The Darkest Summer
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating, well written book on the start of the "Forgotten War". I read it after reading "Hidden History of the Korean War" by I.F. Stone. Do our military leaders ever get it right? Massive egos and inept followers yield many unnecessary deaths and legacies that are tarnished.