The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War

Though, the follow up response by Major Robert Bateman did discredit several of the many witnesses that were part of the Associated Press' story, there are still many unfilled holes that are left unanswered by both accounts. I have read both Bateman's and the AP accounts, as well as anything that I could get my hands on in regards to No Gun Ri, and the fact of the matter is that though they both dispute the numbers of dead,... Read Full Review

This book is an important document of an otherwise unknown atrocity of war. Mendoza teaches at my school, and I have spoken with her on the issue of the credibility of the North Korean events at No Gun Ri described in the book. The truth is that their main witness (who was only main after 60 minutes chose to focus on him) is in fact fraudulent. This, however, is one unfortunate event and one person in the huge process of... Read Full Review

Hanley's book provides the reader with a view of American war from an antagonist point of view. 90% of causualties during the Korean War were sustained by South and North Korean citizens. Hanley connects the citizens of a small South Korean village to the reader and leads them into the No Gun Ri massacre. The accounts of the villagers are extremely viseral to truly convey the real gore that took place with the landing of... Read Full Review

...the authors found documentation showing that there were orders to strafe refugees and kill them when they tried to cross lines. The Pentagon report was a whitewash because it acknowledged the killing done by some scared soldiers, but carefully deflected attention away from the evidence showing that the air force and the army were ordered to kill civilians.Returning to the bridge itself, some of the critics don't seem to... Read Full Review

This is an important--and extremely well told-- book about a massacre of Korean civilians by U.S. troops during the Korean War. If the story of the killings at No Gun Ri had been made public at the time instead of covered up for 50 years, the atrocities that happened during Vietnam might never have happened. This book, written by the reporters who discovered the documents that prove there were official U.S. military orders... Read Full Review