"The Korean Peninsula issue is a problem left over from history," is something that many people often hang on their lips. However, as Mr. Long Yingtai said: For anyone or thing, if we do not know its past, how can we understand its meaning to the present? If we do not understand its present, what right do we have to judge the future?
As we all know, the confrontation on the Korean peninsula began with the Cold War. Because of different ideologies, an unusually tragic war broke out here more than seventy years ago, and all parties involved in the war are still reluctant to look back (except for the official self-aggrandizement of North Korea). With the passage of time, the lessons left behind by that year seem to have gradually been forgotten, and some people have not even abandoned ideological discourse, clamoring to "defend the friendship made of blood with blood." Therefore, we try our best to restore the historical truth from the perspective of all parties involved - who exactly triggered the "war without winners"? What makes the situation on the Korean Peninsula today is particularly urgent and important today.
How did the Adversaries of the Sino-North Korean coalition, the U.S.-led "United Nations Forces," view the war? What happened to them on the Korean Peninsula during the "coldest winter" of 1950? Is this war really "inevitable"?
Ideal Translation Series Launches Latest Edition of "The Coldest Winter: The Korean War through the Eyes of Americans"
There have been many books about the Korean War
Why recommend this one?
1. This book is the most profound reflection of American intellectuals on the Korean War. It is also the best-selling champion of books on the theme of the Korean War in the United States, and the pulitzer prize winner, which has swept the academic, corporate, media, and military circles for many years.
2. In the winter of 1950, at the Battle of Chosin Lake, the elite American troops were almost completely annihilated. MacArthur, a five-star general known as the "Caesar of america", suffered the biggest Waterloo of his life and walked off the altar.
MacArthur
3. David Haberstam, the "father of journalists" in the United States, has been brewing for more than 40 years, interviewing more than 100 surviving veterans, spending more than 10 years to comprehensively analyze this "death for the draw" war, a series of new conclusions related to history and reality, which is thought-provoking. He was included in President Trump's must-read list by the new U.S. National Security Adviser, Hebert McMaster. The new edition adds more than 30,000 words and more than 800 historical materials.
4. The author of this book has passed away in 2007, can the work of the deceased stand the test of history? This answer needs to be answered by readers and friends after carefully reading this 700-page tome!
5. More than half a century ago, the Korean War nearly triggered World War III. Why did the Korean War break out? Why did the war, which was originally planned to end in three weeks, end up lasting three years? How did the mighty United States get bogged down? To what extent is the international situation in the Far East still affected by this war today? This book has allowed many truths to finally begin to surface. Half a century later, the cold winter is coming again, will history repeat itself? This book is a mirror!
The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner,
Known as the "father of journalists" in the United States
David Huberstam, born in New York City in 1934, graduated from Harvard University in 1955 and worked as a journalist for The New York Times and Harpers magazines. A veteran Journalist in the United States, he was called the "Father of Journalists" by Wood Ward, the whistleblower of the "Watergate Incident". In 1964, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the truth of the Vietnam War.
Haberstam's writings cover the history of war, the media, the automobile industry, the civil rights movement, baseball, and the history of dynasties. "The Coldest Winter: The Korean War in the Eyes of Americans" is the work that cost him the most effort during his lifetime. His wish was to write about three major wars in which the United States participated (the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War), but on April 23, 2007, Haberstam was killed in a car accident during the interview and failed to fulfill his wish.
Shen Zhihua, Yang Kuisong, Liang Wendao, etc
Famous artists jointly recommended
Liang Wendao (writer, media person):
The first edition of the book was the top book sales in the Korean War, and the Republic of China was republished, and was jointly recommended by modern historians such as Yang Kuisong, as well as famous artists such as Liang Wendao and Gao Xiaosong. David Haberstam is an American journalist who has written many stories that have nearly changed history during his decades as a journalist. The Korean War contained too many political errors of judgment, and the consequences of the two countries were very different. A newly established state power actually defeated the world's first military power! For the United States, the forgotten Korean War made it impossible to learn from it, thus laying hidden dangers. The Vietnam War, the Iraq War and other wars are proof of this.
Zhan Jiang (Professor, University of Foreign Chinese, Beijing): Huberstam is a journalist for a traditional mainstream newspaper with a career of more than 40 years and a deep global vision, bob Woodward honors Haberstam as the "father of American journalists." In addition, he has published 19 monographs reflecting on the American civil rights movement, political developments, foreign policy, and international strategy in the 20th century, most of which are masterpieces of documentary works and have had a major impact on contemporary American political culture.
Zhao Chu (Deputy Director, Shanghai National Defense Strategy Research Institute):
This is a book written by an American who experienced the war with the last energy of his life. While outlining the macro-international background of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and the DPRK, he calmly and sincerely described the soldiers' true feelings about the war with a rare large number of interviews with witnesses.
Stephen Sestanović (Professor, School of International and Public Relations, Columbia University):
Haberstam's Korean War seems to be an echo of today's situation, at least in the reader's mind. His book is all about how U.S. policy was hijacked, how the country was instigated, and what the disaster that followed was.
U.S. Lt. Gen. Harold Moore: "The Coldest Winter" combines all the tragic elements of this tragic war into one, and is an unparalleled masterpiece.
British "Daily Telegraph": Haberstam's words are soaked with the fear and misery of war, but they are also full of human courage, if it is not at the moment of crisis, no one knows whether he is a hero or a coward.
Star Tribune: "The Coldest Winter" is perhaps the top masterpiece of war and conflict to date.