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The Korean War

Australia in the Giant's Playground

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The Korean War

By: Cameron Forbes
Narrated by: Richard Aspel
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 The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea’s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical.©2010 Cameron Forbes. (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Military World Korean War War Russia China Imperial Japan Imperialism Soviet Union

Critic Reviews

"It is a splendid piece of storytelling …" (The Weekend Australian)
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What a waist of my time, tangents, barely related tangents everywhere. Narration didn't help either.

Terrible

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Very disappointing. This book does not describe Australia’s involvement in the Korean War neither does it provide a narrative history thereof.

Instead it is a series of loosely connected stories with greater or lesser connection to the subject. Major areas are entirely omitted in favour of deep dives into tangential effluvia.

Some bits are interesting but the gaps and the overkill on tangents mean that this book should be avoided.

Wanders all over the place

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