In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War by Melinda L. Pash
The nutshell: Between exulting in World War II and deploring the Vietnam War, we tend to forget the Korean War and its veterans. Pash, a historian at Fayetteville Technical Community College, strives to give these forgotten soldiers their due, largely by recounting their own words about the everyday experiences of war.
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