- Title:
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The Korean War: Australia in the Giant's Playground
- Written by:
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Cameron Forbes
- Read by:
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Richard Aspel
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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14
- Duration:
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16 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2011
- Available Date:
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December 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743101124
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; History
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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"It is a splendid piece of storytelling …"
The Weekend Australian
The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads.
Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea’s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical.