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This is a extensive beginning level Korean workbook. This helpful practice book is intended as a companion to Elementary Korean but can be used with any other Korean textbook or as a standalone self-study guide to learn Korean. Elementary Korean Workbook is essential for practicing and polishing your proficiency in everyday conversational beginner Korean. Here are carefully crafted activities for expanding your abilities to read Korean, write Korean,...
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The first year of the Korean War was a tumultuous series of epic battles, ending in a legendary and harrowing retreat. In the summer of 1950, British and Australian troops were dispatched to fight with UN forces in the savage struggle against communism in Korea. After both triumph and tragedy while breaking out of the "Pusan Perimeter," 27th Brigade – the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex battalions, soon joined by the Royal Australians...
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The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists and the first war we didn't win. We've not had a win since 1945. Today, nuclear tensions between North Korea and the United States have heightened the uncertainty of lives in America, the Pacific Rim and throughout the world.
I designed the mural wall at the Korean Veterans Memorial on the Mall...
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In the continuing series, the Hoquiam returns to there North Korean East coast running back and forth between Wonsan and Sosura. Targets include roads, bridges, trains, and other targets of opportunity. She is allowed to return to Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan for short periods of rest and ship upkeep. Their favorite targets are the narrow-gauge trains that run between Manchuria and various North Korean and Chinese bases. Usually, they catch them between...
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In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.
Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated...
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Following Elementary Korean, Continuing Korean is the second volume in Ross King and Jaehoon Yeon's popular series of college-level Korean textbooks. This volume is aimed at the student with one year of Korean language study under their belt, and particularly the student who has mastered the patterns and vocabulary introduced in King and Yeon's Elementary Korean, the first book in this series. Each of the fifteen chapters in Continuing Korean introduces...
68) Failure to Heed
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With the end of WWII, Planet Earth is hoping the human penchant for warring has finally passed. Unfortunately, with the use of the atomic bomb in 1945, a new kind of war pitting communism versus democracy will soon take center stage. Amid a postwar rush into consumerism and new technology, a seething situation in Asia will again fan the flames of war and destruction as the calendar turns to 1950. The war in Korea will rage on through the rest of the...
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William Stueck is Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Among his works is The Road to Confrontation: American Policy toward China and Korea, 1947-1950.
This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed...
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William Stueck is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of several books, including The Korean War: An International History (Princeton).
Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into...
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English Korean Bilingual children's book Perfect for kids studying Korean or English as their second language and includes educational message as well. Follow along as little bunny Jimmy and his brothers learn their lesson in this picture book. They learn to work together, clean up their room, and organize their toys. Once they finish, they finally have room for more fun and understand how important it is to keep their room clean.
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An inspiring first-hand account by military aviation pioneer Richard Kirkland recounts how he and a handful of daring helicopter pilots revolutionized battlefield medical evacuation and blazed the trail for modern air-evac flying. Prior to the Korean War, the helicopter was all but unknown, and rescue was uncertain at best for downed pilots and wounded soldiers stranded behind enemy lines. In MASH ANGELS, Richard Kirkland recounts his experiences...
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The memoir, A Warrior's Odyssey: A Life Transformed, is about my life altered by military service--how the U.S. Army changed me from a confused and frightened a 19-year old Mexican American into a commissioned officer and a confident citizen.
With the response of the United States to North Korea's sudden invasion of the South in 1950, I was among the many thousands of young men about to be taken into military service. Rather than being drafted, I...
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Everything needed to learn to read, write, speak, and understand the basic and most useful words in the Korean language is in this handy set of flash cards including many hundreds of phrases and sentences using them. The cards in this volume are a great way to learn Korean and contain the most common words and expressions used in daily Korean communication concrete nouns as well as verbs and adjectives that form the core Korean vocabulary. These are...
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The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12,1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from most...
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A handy introduction to the Korean language that is concise, simple, and useful. This book has been written to fill a specific need: that of the hundreds of thousand of people now visiting Korea for business or holidays or even living there for a year or two, who wish to learn something of the spoken Korean language around them. The grammatical structure of Korean is particularly complex, and difficulties plague foreign students learning Korean. Samuel...
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English Korean Bilingual Book. Perfect for kids studying English or Korean as their second language.
In this bedtime story, the little bunny Jimmy and his older brothers try to find a perfect present for Mom's birthday. They want to show how much they love her. What creative solution did they find to express their feelings? This story may be ideal for reading to your kids at bedtime as it's enjoyable for the whole family!
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As a Marine corpsman, Leonard Adreon saw some of the worst of the Korean War's carnage and the best of its humanity. His gripping description brings to life the war between the Chinese army and the U.S. Marines as they battled to take the high ground. You will feel the anguish, the frustration and the terror endured by Marines on the hillsides of Korea, and how U.S. troops fought with valor and esprit de corps under adverse conditions and against...
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This book chronicles the Pusan Perimeter campaign, providing clear insight into occupation in Korea, Japan, and Okinawa prior to the Korean War. With an historical text written by General Uzal Ent (Ret.), a rifle platoon veteran of the Perimeter, this book details the strategies, tactics and actions of the troops, yet includes the personal accounts of hundreds of soldiers and marines who were there. This book is the definitive history of the Pusan...
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