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USMC Tanker's Korea: The War in Photos, Sketches, and Letters Home
USMC Tanker's Korea The War in Photos Sketches and Letters Home Author:Roger G. Baker More than memoir, the letters, sketches and photographs from a soldier on the front line of America?s first war against communist expansion offers the reader more than a macro-view of the conflict. Neither historical overview, nor outline of grand strategy told by those far from front line butchery, Tanker?s War is an ordinary man?s experi... more »ence of grand geopolitical strategy at the place where diplomacy gives way to bayonet. And there lies its power. While the many photographs offer testimony to the effects of war more eloquent than any prose, the letters from a young man thrust into the killing fields yield a candid honesty as valid as anything written by any soldier in any war. A soldier's story in a soldier's words, USMC TANKER?S KOREA will prove invaluable researchers, to historians, to anyone with interest in The Korean War, the men who fought it, and the scars it left behind.« less