Ebb and Flow

A graduate of Wayne State (Nebraska) College, Billy C. Mossman is the author of studies and monographs on U.S. Army operations in the Korean War and of two chapters, "Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945-50," and "The Korean War, 1950-53," in American Military History, a volume in the Army Historical Series. He contributed to Origins, History, and Accomplishments of the U.S. Army Reserve, published by the Historical Evaluation and Research Organization, and to Challenge and Response in Internal Conflict, published by the Center for Research in Social Systems, American University. He is also coauthor of The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969.During World War II, Mr. Mossman served as a platoon leader with the 381st Infantry, 96th Infantry Division, and participated in the Leyte and Okinawa campaigns in the Pacific theater. In the Korean War, he was a military historian with the Eighth Army; Army Forces, Far East; and United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission. Mr. Mossman joined the Office of the Chief of Military History as an Army officer in 1954 and became a civilian staff member in 1957. As a civilian staff member, he served successively as historian, deputy branch chief, branch chief, and acting division chief. He retired in 1983 but remains active in the field of military history.

出版者:Center of Military History, United States Army

作者:Billy C Mossman

页数:569

出版时间:1990

价格:GBP 23.80

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780160234866

图书标签:朝鲜战争战争史军事史

Ebb and Flow records an important chapter in the Korean War, the period from late November 1950 to early July 1951 when battle lines did indeed ebb and flow in pronounced surges. Billy C. Mossman begins with the last weeks of the pell-mell rush of United Nations forces to the Chinese border and goes on to chronicle in great detail the test of American military leadership and resources posed by the taxing retreat of the Eighth Army and X Corps across the frozen wastes of North Korea. He highlights the limitations imposed by terrain and weather on the fighting capabilities of an American army facing surprise attack from a large disciplined enemy. In addition, the operations he describes in such careful detail vivify the principles of war for those with an interest in studying the profession of arms.

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Between 1961 and 1970 the US Army published volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four main volumes of their history of the Korean War. For reasons never been fully explained or even discussed, the second volume covering the period between the main Chinese attack on th...

Between 1961 and 1970 the US Army published volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four main volumes of their history of the Korean War. For reasons never been fully explained or even discussed, the second volume covering the period between the main Chinese attack on th...

Between 1961 and 1970 the US Army published volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four main volumes of their history of the Korean War. For reasons never been fully explained or even discussed, the second volume covering the period between the main Chinese attack on th...

Between 1961 and 1970 the US Army published volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four main volumes of their history of the Korean War. For reasons never been fully explained or even discussed, the second volume covering the period between the main Chinese attack on th...

Between 1961 and 1970 the US Army published volumes 1, 3 and 4 of the four main volumes of their history of the Korean War. For reasons never been fully explained or even discussed, the second volume covering the period between the main Chinese attack on th...