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David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter the best book he ever wrote, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history.The Coldest Winter changes that.Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures -- Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order.At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the consequences of the dangerous misjudgments and competing agendas of powerful men. We meet them, follow them, and see some of the most dreadful battles in history through their eyes.
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April 6th, 2011 at 9:09 am
The Coldest Winter is the late David Halberstam’s final book, finished just before he died in an automobile accident. In it, he brings to life the political and military forces that formed the Korean War, and the personalities - Mao, Stalin, MacArthur, and Truman - that wrangled over the future direction of Asia. From the invasion by North Korean troops in 1950 that overrun almost the entire peninsula, to the U.N. troops retaking the south and forcing a stalemate at the 38th parallel, the war killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of Koreans. General MacArthur’s huge victory at Inchon was eventually undone by his wish to engage the Chinese and then feeding misinformation to President Truman to bolster his own views on how the war should be fought. The Coldest Winter has received positive reviews with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saying, “Into its 650-plus pages, he appears to have poured all he had learned about East-West politics and conflicts in nearly five decades of reporting, research and writing. It is possibly the best one-volume history of the conflict yet.”