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A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans (Latitude 20 Book)
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by Louis Baldovi
Sales Rank: 1361268
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List Price: $21.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: University of Hawaii Press October 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0824826108
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0824826109
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
A Foxhole View is a powerful and moving oral History of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the infantry -- told in the distinctive voices of Hawaii's soldiers.
"A terrific read. A Foxhole View tells an important story of fear, heroism, brotherhood, and courage. It is at one and the same time a gritty, horrible and glorious story. I found myself awed by the everyday, humble, matter-of-fact valor of these men." --- Dan Boylan, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, and co-author of John A. Burns: The Man and His Times
Publisher Description
A Latitude twenty Book.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Reader Reviews
Louis Baldovi has crafted a masterful work of wartime storytelling from first person experiences of Hawaii's Korean War veterans. Their individual stories are masterfully woven thrugh the sequence of events that defines the Korean War from beginning to end. It's more than just a collection of personal oral histories, it's an integrated account of a Forgotten War than cannot be left forgotten. You've got to be in the midst of it to know what it's like. and after you've gone through it in the pitch darkness of night, on the battlefields, behind enemy lines, in POW camps - it's not something easy to reminisce about. In fact, for some of the vets, it was better to "forget and erase' in order to go on. For those veterans who did, this was time of their lives that cannot be forgotten. The feelings reach deep and cannot be erased. They told it like it was for only somebody like Louis to relate to us. He was there too. To me, it's simple but profound. We've heard it many times, "war must be the closet thing to hell." I've never been there, to war or to hell, so I can't be sure. But, if you have a hankering to know for sure, this book will take you close , and perhaps, make you appreciate why they say "War Is Hell." It is not a good place to go, under any circumstance. But, you got read the book. Somehow, I found it strangely touching the soul.
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