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From Pusan to Panmunjom : Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General

by: Yup, Paik Sun

From Pusan to Panmunjom : Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General

by: Yup, Paik Sun

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9781574887433
ISBN 10:
1574887432
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/18/2007
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

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From Pusan to Panmunjomis the candid and revealing wartime memoir of the soldier who, at the age of thirty-two, became South Korea's first four-star general. It brings an unprecedented perspective to a cataclysmic war.

Maps	p. viii
Foreword	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
The Long, Long Summer	p. 1
Kaesong Has Fallen	p. 1
The Munsan Defense Line Crumbles	p. 8
Across the Han by Raft	p. 15
Retreat to the Naktong: 200 Miles of Hell	p. 23
Delaying Actions	p. 23
No Place to Run	p. 28
Bloody Fighting at the Naktong	p. 34
Reversing the Tide of War	p. 46
We Lead the Way North	p. 55
Back the Way We Came	p. 55
Attacking Pyongyang "Patton's Way"	p. 61
The Greatest Day of My Life	p. 68
Pyongyang Is Free	p. 74
The Chinese Trap	p. 82
Our Last Hours in Unsan: The Bloody Autumn Night	p. 90
Pashed Hopes	p. 98
Rest and Recuperation	p. 98
The Christmas Offensive: Blind March to Disaster	p. 103
The Wretched Withdrawal of January 4, 1951	p. 110
Seesaw Battles on the Central Front	p. 119
Back to the 38th Parallel	p. 128
Spring Breezes Blow on the Han River	p. 128
War Rations, Courtesy of General MacArthur	p. 133
Departing the 1st Division	p. 134
Withdraw or Fight to the Death	p. 141
The Collapse of III Corps	p. 147
Concentrated Training for the ROK Army	p. 157
What Will We Lose and What Will We Gain?	p. 164
Representing Korea at Armistice Talks No Korean Wants	p. 164
The Truce Talks Falter	p. 172
Return to the Front	p. 175
Task Force Paik Hammers Guerrillas	p. 179
Quiet Returns to the Chiri	p. 186
Organizing II Corps: Symbol of the New Army	p. 194
The Road to Four Stars and Army Chief of Staff	p. 201
A New Honor	p. 201
Solving Ration Problems and Stacks of Other Issues	p. 208
Korea's First Four-Star General	p. 214
The War Enters a New Phase	p. 221
Releasing Anticommunist POWs, Startling the World	p. 228
Clutching for the High Ground	p. 234
The War Ends at Last	p. 244
Did the War Make Unification More Remote?	p. 244
Chief of Staff Again	p. 249
Epilogue	p. 253
Index	p. 255
The Author	p. 271
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From Pusan to Panmunjom : Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General

From Pusan to Panmunjom : Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General

9781574887433

1574887432

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