GHOST FLAMES LIFE AND DEATH IN A HIDDEN WAR, KOREA 1950-1953 CHARLES J. The narrative unfolds in interwoven episodes, month by month, from the hilltop trench lines, the refugee. In decades as an international journalist, Hanley reported from some 100 countries and covered more than a half-dozen conflicts, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq. Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 Charles J. 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. This is an intimate, deeper kind of history, whose meticulous research and rich detail, drawing on recently unearthed materials and eyewitness accounts, brings the true face of the Korean War, the vastness of its human tragedy, into a sharper focus than ever before. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of 20 individuals who lived through it-from a North Korean refugee girl to an American nun, a Chinese general to a black American prisoner of war, a British journalist to a US Marine hero. In this vivid, emotionally compelling and highly original account, Charles J. Hanley has reported from some 100 countries in his four-decade career at the Associated Press. Hanley RELEASE DATE: A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist forges a masterly new history of the Korean War through character studies of the participants caught in the conflict. Books online: Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, 2021, .nz. GHOST FLAMES LIFE AND DEATH IN A HIDDEN WAR, KOREA 1950-1953 by Charles J. The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history, as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, and the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. Fishpond New Zealand, Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles JHanleyBuy. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Ī 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.

Ghost Flames by Charles J. Hanley