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Honoring Those Who Paid The Price: Forgotten Voices From The Korean War

In December 1950 Donald Hamilton, a medic with the Eighth Army's Seventh Division, became trapped with the rest of his comrades under a fierce onslaught by Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir. As Hamilton prepared to escape to safety, he heard a fellow soldier scream for help. Disregarding a friend's plea not to return, Hamilton went back to offer aid. He was never seen again. Donald Hamilton is one of the 927 Hoosiers killed in the Korean War. The story of those who died, those who served, and the loved ones back home who struggled to understand the horrors of war are examined in this book. Randy K. Mills personally interviewed a number of Hoosier veterans of the war, reviewed letters from veterans to loved ones back home, perused local and national media accounts, and consulted definitive historical studies about the conflict. Mills explores America's shock and lack of preparation for the war and the heroic defense of Pusan, the successful landing at Inchon, and the shocking introduction of half a million troops by China. Finally stopping the Chinese at the thirty-eighth parallel, American troops and their United Nations allies fought to a stalemate as negotiations dragged on to end the war, which finally ended in July 1953 with a truce.

Hardcover: 276 pages

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society; First Edition edition (October 1, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0871951622

ISBN-13: 978-0871951625

Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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"Honoring Those Who Paid The Price": Forgotten Voices from the Korean War by Randy K. Mills (Associate Professor of History, Oakland City University, Oakland City, Indiana), is a candidly personal, movingly emotional, and informatively serious survey of a seemingly forgotten war that claimed approximately 54,000 American lives. Individual stories of those who served, those who died, and the loved ones who waited anxiously at home, fill this sober tribute. Highly recommended as testimony to the many souls who paid the highest price. "Honoring Those Who Paid The Price" is a welcome addition to Military History collections and would well serve as a template for similar books on other "minor" American twentieth-century conflicts ranging from Granada to Somalia.

My cousin was a Marine from Indiana, who was killed at the Chosin Resevoir battle. It was very easy reading and interesting.

Great read! Indiana Heros !

Very good

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