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America and the Korean War
Hyperion
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
736 pages
ISBN: 1401300529
EAN: 9781401300524
Hardcover
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David Halberstam’s magisterial and thrilling The Best and
the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War.
More than three decades later, Halberstam used his
unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to
shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean
War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the
Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.
Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter the best book he
ever wrote, the culmination of forty-five years of writing
about America’s postwar foreign policy. Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of
modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that.
Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political
decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the
disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese
forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and
his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid
and nuanced portraits of all the major figures --
Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals
MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam
provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative
journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage
of the highest order. At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the
soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the
consequences of the dangerous misjudgements and competing
agendas of powerful men. We meet them, follow them, and see
some of the most dreadful battles in history through their
eyes. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the
extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an
extraordinary burden. The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most
literary and luminescent form, and provides crucial
perspective on the Vietnam War and the events of today. It
was a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than
thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to
write. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the
greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the
fighting men whose heroism it chronicles. Includes an Afterword by Russell Baker
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