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Efter andra världskrigets slut låg Tyskland i ruiner. Familjer hade splittrats, hem hade bombats sönder och miljontals tyskar hade blivit flyktingar i sitt eget land. Under flera år rådde stor nöd o……続きを見る

Although never formally diagnosed, Frank Merritt was on the autistic spectrum. He was also dyslexic and it was rare for him to write anything down. When he was called up for National Service in the ……続きを見る

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He explains the……続きを見る

You've seen it in K-Dramas. K-Pop idols call it their "soul food." The world is obsessed with kimchi. But what if everything you think you know about it is wrong? This is not a cookbook. It is a dec……続きを見る

When North Korea mounted its audacious surprise invasion of South Korea in June 1950, the world was stunned. Within 3 days, the Soviet backed North Koreans had captured the South Korean capital of S……続きを見る

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense. Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo J……続きを見る

Ezdy & Me is more than a memoir, it's a living archive of courage, love, and legacy, a masterclass in storytelling from someone who didn't just witness history, he flew through it. Each chapter puls……続きを見る

A companion book to US Heavy Cruisers 1941–45, this is a guide to those cruisers built in the later years of World War II and beyond, together forming the definitive guide to the US's heavy cruiser ……続きを見る

Dane Hans Tofte's remarkable career spanned covert operations in WWII, the OSS, CIA, and Cold War intelligence. When World War II broke out, Dane Hans Tofte gave up his promising career in the marit……続きを見る

A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea. October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an am……続きを見る

On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had ma……続きを見る

Après les industries lourdes, automobiles, électroniques, la Corée est en passe de réussir dans de nouveaux domaines où on ne l’attendait pas : le cinéma, les livres ou encore la musique. Une conquê……続きを見る

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 dangero……続きを見る

“Confederate Tide Rising is one of the most significant evaluations of Civil War strategy to be published in the past fifty years. It contributes critically to our understanding of the war, and it w……続きを見る

책 소개 전쟁의 폐허 속에서 자유를 꿈꾸던 소년, 그리고 감사를 품고 전 세계를 누빈 한 사람의 이야기. 한국전쟁을 겪은 저자는, 아내와 함께 미국 전역을 여행하며 자신의 삶을 바꿔준 미국에 대한 깊은 감사를……続きを見る

"I have read lots of leadership books, but this one now goes to the top of the list for the Army officers that want to aspire to doing leadership and mentorship correctly. They will also see what sa……続きを見る

In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Korea's most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge between the living an……続きを見る

Seoul, 1946. Liberation has come, but the wounds remain. In the ruins of a teahouse near Jongno, a troupe of talchum performers gathers around a sacred maskーcracked during a Japanese police raid, h……続きを見る

THE MASK THAT LAUGHS AT EMPIRE Ancient Korean Wisdom for Modern Resistance When a Japanese governor demanded that even the gods bow to the Emperor, one carved wooden mask refused. In 1911 colonial K……続きを見る

In the valley of Chogapsan, where children once entered the world laughing, a strange mist descends from the northern cliffs. It smells of memory burned to ash. One by one, the children forget who t……続きを見る

J. F. C. Fuller, one of the most original military thinkers of the twentieth century, challenges the listener to rethink the very foundations of movement, power, and modern warfare in “Pegasus: Prob……続きを見る

In A Long Cold War: A Chronology of American Life and Culture 1945 to 1991, Jerry Carrier delivers an extensive and nuanced cultural history of America from the conclusion of World War II to the fal……続きを見る

An epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian ("Gives the brave Marines of George Company long o……続きを見る

MASTERS OF WAR: GEORGE C. MARSHALL The Organizer of Victory He never commanded troops in battle. Yet he built the army that won World War II. In September 1939, when George C. Marshall became Chief ……続きを見る

A fascinating examination of the Korean War years and its impact on Major League Baseball Although baseball's history in the immediate post-World War II years has sometimes been characterized as a “……続きを見る

When the earth cracked and the rain refused to fall, a limping demon came to the farmers of Jeolla with an impossible offer: feed him stories, and he would feed them rain. In this electrifying explo……続きを見る

On an island where gods hide as refugees and the sea remembers every promise, one woman carved a face from grief and taught a nation how to dance with death. When her husband drowned in a typhoon, t……続きを見る

In a time of famine, twelve spirits came wearing bone-white masks. They offered a bargain: Feed us stories, and we will feed you life. From the salt-winds of Korea's Hwanghae Province comes a myth t……続きを見る

Seoul, 1721. Laughter is illegal. Truth is treason. The powerful have outlawed the ancient mask dances, terrified of "the mirror the mask holds." Then, at twilight beneath Gwanghuimun gate, a figure……続きを見る

In 1394, a mysterious chest arrived at the construction site of Korea's new capital. Inside: twelve masks that mocked Heaven itself. When King Taejo ordered them buried, the earth erupted with laugh……続きを見る