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    Korean War: A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
    Korean War: A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
    Korean War: A Captivating Guide to Korean War History
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    Korean War: A Captivating Guide to Korean War History

    Written by Captivating History

    Narrated by Duke Holm

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    Explore how the Korean War started, the aftermath, and the events in between!

    The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe.

    The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots set foot on Korean soil. The heart of the conflict was a civil war between a population arbitrarily divided by colonization and the global geopolitics at the end of the Second World War.

    Challenging the widely perpetuated Western narrative and getting to the core of the Korean conflict is no easy feat. From assumptions that the outbreak of war was a deliberate act of communist aggression, to the notion that Eisenhower and Truman's constant threats of atomic annihilation broke the Chinese and North Korean spirit and led to the signing of the armistice, everything needs to be dissected and reviewed on its own factual merit to fully understand the nature of the war.

    This guide seeks to pull this narrative curtain and peek behind at the truth of the matter, tracing the history of the war back to the Japanese occupation and uncovering the root of Korean nationalism that stirred the nation into the frenzy of civil war in 1950.

    Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:

    • The Japanese Ascendency: 1910-1945
    • A Korea Divided: The US Occupation of the South
    • The Forging of the North Korean State
    • First Blood: The Outbreak of War
    • Strike Hard and Strike Fast: The US Retreat
    • Bittersweet Victories: American Revival and China's Decision to Cross the Yalu
    • How Do You Solve a Problem Like China?
    • The Bloody Ceasefire and Looming Bomb
    • The Legacy of the Korean War
    • And more

    Listen now to learn more about the Korean War.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaptivating History
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781987189377

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    • 1/5
      A hilarious propaganda piece. My favorite "story" is how the writer says what would have happened if the US nuked the enemy. I was amazed that the bureaucrats that couldn't predict the Korean war knew what would happen if we won the war.
      I loved the way the narrator was so excited to claim Mac was wrong to want to use Nukes and it was wrong for Tru to nuke NorKs because it would turn into a wider war. Hello??? What do you think happened? We are still at war with NorKor and China. The Narrator explains how our governing class, Pentagon People and CIA guyz post war investigated what would happen if the US nuked The Chi Coms. These are among America's best and brightest and reddest who at the end of WW II decided ...hey wait.. we gave The REDS all of East Asia? As if that would not be a problem? So after FDR promised Stalin all of Korea, they decide that does look like the Deep State loved communism more than life. FDR promised Stalin everything. FDR gave Stalin the money and the weapons, and the Japanese for that matter and the Japanese weapons to make it easier to defeat the West.
      The propaganda writer doesn't present to the audience the disturbing contradiction of his claim that Truman wanted to nuke some one other than the already defeated Japanese. . If he had wanted to win then the bridges over the Yalu would have been blown early in the war. And the US would have destroyed all signs of life on both sides of that border. There would never have been 500 K chicom "volunteers." Truman didn't want to win. He didn't want to fight. He capitulated half the world to the Reds. And to make sure the Reds win Truman cut the Military budget deep. So Weapons in Korea weren't even usable in WW 2. Truman cut his military budget so he could promote his socialist/commie Budget promoted by his red x os. Funny huh? Truman wanted to turn the US into a cheap imitation of the Real Red thing: Nationalize railroads, Free Health Care, SOS as today.
      One could argue that the Ivy league commie sympathizers that ran Truman's executive branch reported to Stalin every thought of Truman and Stalin gave the Red bureaucrats their marching orders not Truman. The writer could have explained to the listener how Mao had a nation wide extermination campaign going on the same time he was sending volunteers to mass death that included at first Nationalist Chinese more than Regular.
      And the Chinese coming down to fight in tennis shoes or flip flops. After getting nuked they were going to what? Keep coming? Truman didn't want to win; he had no intention of using nukes. He was a coward. He would kill more people who were already defeated and couldn't fight back. But he wouldn't kill Reds that had a mission to take over the world while they were killing as many Americans as they could.. He couldn't make up his mind.. But the stalinists that worked for him knew what they wanted...

      What if Mac nuked the border.? How many Chi com soldiers would die? You know they were trying to kill Americans.. Truman was quite happy to nuke Japanese that were NOT trying to kill Americans. They were trying to survive. So we know Tru is quite willing to kill the right type of humans. Now what happened because Truman did NOT nuke or did not want to win the war.. There is no guess work here. The author might have mentioned this: millions in NorKorea dead from their fearless leaders hand. Starvation and marginal living, constant threat to human life in South Korea, Mao kills tens of millions of his own people by starvation. We got a world wide war with China after Truman succeeded in losing the war in Korea. We got the Vietnam war, we got Bay of Pigs, we got Central America, Afghanistan, Iraq. Now today we got Chicom take over Hong Kong. So much for the Brits wanting to protect their business in Hong Kong. And we got Chi Coms in the Pacific threatening our allies, we got Chi Coms wanting to invade "Former mosa." What we have is pretty crappy. What we have is US military in constant state of ready war for 70 years in Korea.
      Then the author neglects to mention how TR gave Korea to Japan, and then FDR gave Korea to Stalin.