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No Bugles, No Drums: An Oral History of the Korean War
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by Rudy Tomedi
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Cover Type: Paperback with 280 pages
Published by: WileyEdition: 1st Edition October 7, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0471105732
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471105732
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 15 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Thirty-one Korean War veterans talk about their experiences between 1950 and 1953 in this wide-ranging collection of reminiscences. They participated, variously, in the initial delaying action against the North Koreans, the defense of the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul, China's entry into the conflict, the heroic withdrawal of the Marines from the Chosin Reservoir, the United Nations counteroffensive that drove the North Koreans and Chinese back across the 38th parallel (Operation Killer) and the static trench warfare that lasted until the armistice in July of 1953. Tomedi, a veteran of the Vietnam war, tries to cover as much ground as possible. He includes recollections by a fighter pilot, a bomber pilot, a screening officer at a POW camp and a machinist's mate on a destroyer, but these are far less interesting than the memories of those who met the enemy in face-to-face combat. Nevertheless, the oral testimonies here clearly convey what the war in Korea was like and how it differed from WW II and Vietnam. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A principle virtue of this compact but affecting reprise of the Korean War is that it lets those who survived the fighting and dying speak for themselves. Having tracked down over one hundred veterans of the murderous police action, freelance journalist Tomedi relies on their reminiscences to carry the roughly chronological narrative as he gives his sources virtually free rein, providing just enough background information to keep the big picture in perspective. The stories range from the rude shocks endured by a young infantryman rushed into combat from the comforts of occupation duty in Japan through the apprehension felt by a tanker patrolling the main line of resistance on the eve of armistice over three years later. In between, dozens of aviators, marines, soldiers, and sailors offer vivid accounts of the roles they and their units played in the savage campaigns that convulsed the land of the morning calm from Pusan to Inchon, Seoul, Chosin, and beyond. Their ranks encompass a couple of POWs; an ex-NCO who served in graves registration; an Englishman whose regiment was part of the Commonwealth Division, which supported the UN's predominantly American forces; a carrier pilot who returned from over seventy missions in Mig Alley; and others with decidedly atypical tales to tell. While neither as detailed nor as comprehensive as Donald Knox's two-volume oral history (The Korean War, 1985 and 1988), the gritty takes Tomedi compiled on a so-called ``forgotten'' war pack a real wallop. (Fifteen b&w photos, drawn from personal collections) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Reader Reviews
Certainly ranks as one of the most sobering, factual, 'IN YOUR FACE', 'No-Punches-Pulled' accurate accountings of a crucial period of American History which all too many Americans refused to accept at the time of its happening and who have ignored it with a seeming vengeance, ever since. Our failure to have not learned lasting lessons from it, almost literally 'set the proverbial stage' for us to repeat HISTORY since then. Anyone who feels they have an understanding of the complexities and multi-levels of inherent conflicts and WORLD-WIDE involvements and issues of that time and who haven't read this BOOK, had best read this stunning, eye-opening 'tour-de-force'! Jim Girzone
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