6/27/2023 0 Comments The coldest winter ever hardcoverHe provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures - Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. 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. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. 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. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it. 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. David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War.
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