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2017., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Sha Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable, and an enemy that outnumbers them more than six to one. This struggle, and how the Americans respond, form the core of this novel. The Frozen Hours tells the story of "Frozen Chosin" from multiple points of view: Oliver P. Smith, the commanding general of the American 1st Marine Division, who famously redefined defeat as "advancing in a different direction"; Marine Private Pete Riley, a World War II veteran who now faces the greatest fight of his life; and the Chinese commander Sung Shi-Lun, charged with destroying the Americans he has so completely surrounded, ever aware that above him, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung watches his every move"--
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[2009], p2008., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Gran Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryConnect to reviews of this title online Summary Note: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Walt is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.
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c2012., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: BLK Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.
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2010., 093000., Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: CD Fic Bur Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hackberry Holland Volume: 1Summary Note: "...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts to overturn an old army buddy's conviction, and crosses paths with a beautiful union organizer who speaks to his heart in a way no one else has, he finds both a new love and a new purpose as he breaks free from the shackles of wealth and expectation to bring justice to the underserved."--Container.
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c2003., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Love Is Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studio classic.Summary Note: A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American war correspondent stationed in Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair, but when the journalist is transferred to Korea where war has broken out, tragedy strikes.
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-- MASH.[2004]., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic M*A*S*H 6 Edition: Collector's ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: M*A*S*H Volume: 6Summary Note: The adventures continue for the doctors and nurses of the 4077th unit during the Korean War.
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2004., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Gri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Corps Volume: 10