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

ISBN: 0805066586

ISBN13: 9780805066586

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

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The untold human story of a massacre of Korean civilians by American soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered it In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had massacred a large group of South Korean civilians early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal war's 50th anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been supressed for decades, confirming allegations the U.S. military had sought to dismiss. It made headlines around the world. In The Bridge at No Gun Ri , the team tells the larger, human story behind the incident through the eyes of the people who survived it: on the American side, the green recruits of the "good time" U.S. occupation army in Japan made up of teenagers who viewed unarmed farmers as enemies and generals who had never led men into battle; on the Korean side, the peasant families forced to flee their ancestral village caught between the invading North Koreans and the U.S. Army. The narrative looks at victims both Korean and American; at the ordinary lives and high-level decisions that led to the fatal encounter; at the terror of the three-day slaughter; at the memories and ghosts that forever haunted the survivors. The story of No Gun Ri also illuminates the larger story of the Korean War-also known as the Forgotten War-and how an arbitrary decision to divide the country in 1945 led to the first armed conflict of the Cold War.

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Rated 5 stars
This story cannot be dismissed.

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,...

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Important and true

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...

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A Fair Account for both sides

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...

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People miss the point

...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...

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A STUNNING STORY

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...

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