The Korean War: The Story and Photographs (America Goes to War)
by Donald M. Goldstein, Harry J. Maihafer
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Author: Donald M. Goldstein, Harry J. MaihaferEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-30
ISBN: 1574882171
Number of pages: 164
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Book Review: A Propaganda with so many mistakes
Summary: 1 Stars
The book is a total propaganda. It is biased, subjective and arrogant to describe the war, which happened 50 years ago. Objectively I am really surprised to find so many mistakes made by both authors. My understanding about writing history is a hard work, needs patience, requires objective research method and fully delves into the information before you write any sentence for the public. Let me list some mistakes in the book:
1, Photograph 1-11, the banner in the background is in Chinese not Japanese.
2, Photograph 3-36 refers Chinese casualty in July, 1950. The date of Chinese Army entry Korea is October, 1950. I guess this photograph has been moved to a wrong place.
3, Photograph 7-44, 7-45 refer to war happened after April 22nd. However, the clothes of Chinese POW in 7-44 are typically for summer and that in 7-45 are for winter. Readers can tell the difference by themselves.
4, Photograph 8-14, That MiG-15 on display was flown to South Korea on September 21, 1953 by a defecting North Korean pilot who was given a reward of $100,000. In November 1957 it was transferred to the U.S. Air Force Museum for public exhibition.
5, Photograph 9-11, there are no Chinese delegates shown in the picture.
I don't have too much time to check each picture and sentence accuracy. The authors need to do a lot of homework by themselves to know how to write an objective and accurate history book and to be responsible for the readers. If you want to understand Korean War, I fully suggested `The Korean War' by Max Hastings and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war by Wikipedia Encyclopedia. Good luck!
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