"Rings true and will surely stand the test of time . . . . Max Hastings has no peer as a writer
of battlefield history."Stephen E. Ambrose

"Must reading for any American who wants to understand one of the watershed events of the post-World
War II period."Richard M. Nixon

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.
Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South
Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950.

Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vetsincluding the ChineseHastings follows
real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at homethe strategies
and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradleyand shows what we should have
learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

Frederick Davidson is a recipient of the Golden Voices Award and numerous Earphones Awards. After performing for years in many BBC radio plays, he came to America in 1976. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks.