"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place."—from the book
South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean Wa r.
Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War—American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese—this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.

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Peters, Richard, Li, Xiaobing

University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2004

United States, United States of America

2, 2014

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<P>"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place."—from the book </P><P>South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in <I>Voices from the Korean Wa</I>r. </P><P>Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War—American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese—this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.</P>

"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." — from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War — American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese — this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.

"Voices from the Korean War is a major contribution toward recording and making public first-person accounts of the Korean War, as told by officers, soldiers, and civilians. By collecting twenty previously unpublished stories, Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li show the true scope of the war in Korea - freezing cold, blistering heat, lack of supplies, boredom, loneliness, camaraderie, and sheer brutality of combat." "Through these firsthand accounts, Voices from the Korean War highlights the soldier's experience of war rather than offering a political or statistical overview. All combat soldiers endured harsh conditions, but Peters and Li show that the U.S. forces were fighting a very different war from the one being waged by their enemies. For Korean and Chinese soldiers, the war was intensely personal; the loyalty and pride with which they fought shines through the experiences they relate here. For the most part, American soldiers remember instead that the ultimate goal was getting home and that everything in between was "just putting in time.""--Jacket

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