Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series): 129 - Image 1

£45.44

Texas A&M University Press Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series): 129

Name: Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series): 129
Brand: Texas A&M University Press
Price: 45.44 GBP
Availability: InStock

Korean War

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£45 today · previous high £45 · all-time low £28

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 86 days • 86 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 86 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £28 (49 days, 57.0%)

Price range: £28 - £45

Price levels: 4 different prices over 86 days

Description

In the decades since the “forgotten war' in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations historians and fellow soldiers have used regarding these troops do little justice to the tens of thousands of soldiers who worked to make themselves and their army ready for war. In Hanson's careful study of combat preparedness in the Eighth Army from 1949 to the outbreak of hostilities in 1950, he concedes that the U.S. soldiers sent to Korea suffered gaps in their professional preparation, from missing and broken equipment to unevenly trained leaders at every level of command. But after a year of progressive, focused, and developmental collective training―based largely on the lessons of combat in World War II―these soldiers expected to defeat the Communist enemy. By recognizing the constraints under which the Eighth Army operated, Hanson asserts that scholars and soldiers will be able to discard what Douglas Macarthur called the ""pernicious myth"" of the Eighth Army's professional, physical, and moral ineffectiveness.

Product Specifications

Brand: Texas A&M University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1603441670
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Military History > Korean War
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2010
Listed Since: 21 December 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Texas A&M University Press Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series): 129

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-53 (Modern War Studies)

Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union and the Air War in Korea (Texas A & M University Military History): 80

Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Military Studies)

The North Korean Army: History, Structure, Daily Life (Routledge Research on Korea)

U.S. Army Installations - World War II: Seventh Service Command: A Research Reference

Not Even Past: How the United States Ends Wars

Fighting Armies: Nonaligned, Third World, and Other Ground Armies: A Combat Assessment

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War – The Untold History

The Armed Forces Of The Ussr

Warfare and Culture in World History: 9

Truth and Reconciliation in South Korea: Between the Present and Future of the Korean Wars

US Go Home: The US Military in France, 1945-1968

War of Time: Managing Time and Temporality in Operational Art

The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II

The East German Army: The Second Power in the Warsaw Pact: 23 (Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Security Studies)

Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War (Studies in Canadian Military History)

War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness

World War II and the Cold War: The Rhetoric of Hearts and Minds, Volume VIII (Rhetorical History of the United States)

The Korean War: An International History: 68 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

United States Army Shoulder Patches and Related Insignia: From World War I to Korea 1st Division to 40th Division

The Soviet Art Of War: Doctrine, Strategy, And Tactics

North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding (New Asian Anthropology)

Educating America's Military (Cass Military Studies)

Costs and Contributions to Support the U.S. Military Presence Overseas: Inquiry and Analyses