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Ghost Flames by Charles J. Hanley5/25/2023 ![]() In time for the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the war, Hanley offers a peoples history of the devastating events on the Korean Peninsula- Book Synopsis A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets. The narrative unfolds in interwoven episodes, month by month, from the hilltop trench lines, the refugee camps and the prisoner-of-war camps. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling the history of the war through the eyes of twenty one individuals - soldiers and civilians, male and female, young and old, witnesses both to atrocity and to heroism. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea - more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II - and millions of Koreans perished. ![]() About the Book Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. ![]()
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