Retrieving Bones Stories and Poems of the Korean War

Name: Retrieving Bones Stories and Poems of the Korean War
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ISBN: 9780813526393

ISBN-10: 0813526396

ISBN-13: 9780813526393

Edition: 1999

Authors: W. D. Ehrhart, Philip K. Jason

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The Korean War was a major event in American history. It marked an abrupt end to the euphoria Americans felt in the wake of victory in World War II and turned out to be the harbinger of disaster in Vietnam a decade later.Though three years of brutal fighting resulted in millions of casualties, the final truce line of 1953 corresponded almost exactly to the positions the opponents held when the fighting began. Back home, the returning veterans met with little interest in or appreciation of what they had endured. Consequently, literary responses to the Korean War did not find an eager readership. Few people, it seemed, wanted to read about what they perceived as a backwater war that possessed…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Ode for the American Dead in Asia



Map: East Asia


Map: Korea - July 27, 1953


Introduction: Historical and Literary Contexts


Introduction: The Writers and Their Works


Rice



A Long Way from Home



We Build Churches, Inc



Cold Day, Cold Fear



The Trapped Battalion



Hoengsong (from The Useless Servants)



Lost Soldier



Sailors at Their Mourning: A Memory



Graves



Indigenous Girls



A Matter of Price



From The Secret



Soldier's Leave



Korea Bound, 1952



Letter Home



The Soldiers



Shellshock



Combat Iambic



Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew



Burning the Years



The Long March



The Eighth Army at Chongchon



The January-May 1951 Slaughter



Night Burial Details



Jacob Mosqueda Wrestles with the Angels



A Matter of Supplies



Native Son Home from Asia



The Man Without a Face



Zero Minus One Minute



Repository



Re-Runs



They Said



Flag Memoir



Korea 1953



The Korean



Without Laying Claim



I Remember



Pusan Liberty



Sure



The Day the Dam Burst



The Awakening



The Captain



... ganz in Waffen



Guerilla Camp



The Circle



The Girl



Waterfront Bars



December, 1952



Commentary



The Ex-Officer, Navy



Memory of a Victory



Works for Further Study



Chronology



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