Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War
The epic retreat-under-fire of the 1st Marine Division offers a valuable perspective on war at the gut level.

The March to Glory
NORTH KOREA -- DECEMBER 1950 This is the incredible saga of the famed First Marine Division and its savage fighting withdrawl from the Chosin Reservoir to the North Korean port of Hungnam. Battling bitterly cold winds and temperatures that dropped to -25°Fahrenheit, the beleaguered

A Short History of the Korean War
A Short History of the Korean War" provides the reader with an excellent overview of the War, without becoming bogged down in details. Stokesbury adequately covers all aspects of the war, including political, military, naval, air and the peace negotiations.

Battle at the 38th Parallel: Surviving the Peace Talks at Panmunjom
LTG (Ret.) Carman Cavezza, Former Commandant, Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA An interesting, hard hitting and technically accurate work that brings to light the real hardships of soldiers in combat.

Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
Martin Russ's controversial book Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950 tells the riveting story of how 12,000 Army personnel and Marines fought their way out of an encirclement by more than 60,000 Chinese soldiers. A Marine wounded in combat during the Korean War, Russ writes with a...

Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir
Among the many legendary battles and campaigns of the United States Marine Corps there has been none like the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir deep in North Korea in early December of 1950. In the breakout from this trap, the Marines, although suffering grievous casualties, smashed close to ten...

Dog Company Six
An intense, psychological novel by a retired Marine general who fought in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam and knows how to write.

East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950 (Texas A & M University Military History Series)
I've long been very familiar with the 1st Marine Division's history at the Chosin, but until I read Roy Appleman's book I didn't realize just how much I didn't know about the Army's side of the conflict. This tale of desperation and bravery should be required reading amongst all American service personnel and perhaps even in High Schools. Excellently written, this book holds your attention despite the huge amount of very detailed geographic and unit data presented.

Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953
A first-hand account of the battle which became legendary in the annals of combat--a dramatic true story of war at its most brutal...and of military valor at its best. "A distinguished contribution to the literature of war."--

Retreat, Hell!
Chronicles the newly assembled 1st Marine Division's mission to seize the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, during which they fought treacherous mountains and seven well-armed Chinese regiments.

The Final Crucible: US Marines in Korea, 1953
In his second volume on Marine operations during the Korean War's last years, Ballenger continues to be a military historian equally useful to the scholar and the casual buff. The fighting centered on outposts, as each side sought to obtain the best positions to influence the peace negotiations...

The Korean War
Stueck has canvassed research libraries in North America, England, and Australia to give us what must stand as the most complete and intelligent international history of the war yet written

The Korean War (A First Book)
An overview of the three-year war that took over two million lives and resolved none of the conflicts that split Korea into two irreconcilable nations.

The Korean War: The Story and Photographs
Useful . . .The 450 photographs help to convey a sense of the action

The Outpost War : The US Marine Corps in Korea, 1952
A veteran of the events he describes, Ballenger adds usefully to Korean War literature with an account of the 1st Marine Division's actions in 1952. American policy at the time was to neither give nor gain ground while negotiations proceeded, and shortages of manpower and ammunition further limited...

The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War
If Korea is America's forgotten war, Eugene Franklin Clark is certainly one of that war's least-known heroes. The Secrets of Inchon is his first-person account--written in 1953 and long forgotten in a safety deposit box--of his terrifying fortnight on a small island in North Korean-occupied Inchon...

This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
"A comprehensve and impressively written history of the Korean War."

We Called It War! The Untold Story of the Combat Infantry in Korea
"The 'Forgotten War' is not forgotten in Batson's exciting recounting of one man's experiences as an infrantryman on the front lines of Korea. This is not about grand strategy or generals' tactics but the ground's eyeview of a real war."