Retrieving Bones

Retrieving Bones

Stories and Poems of the Korean War

by Philip K. Jason
3/5
(3 votes)

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.

Format
225 pages, Paperback
First published
July 1999
Publishers
Rutgers University Press
Subjects
Poetry anthologies·From c 1900 ·Short stories·True war stories·Literary criticism·Anthologies ·Literature·Classics·Criticism·American english·Korea·Literary collections·American literature·General·20th centu
Language
English

Amazing tales of America's involvement in what we refuse to call a war. It was most definitely a war and is well documented in these stories.

RETRIEVING BONES is a solid, if not outstanding, anthology of literature about a "forgotten" war, and it probably will mean more to the veterans of that war, and to their families, than to most younger readers. W.

This is an exceptional book. For anyone with any interest in creative literature arising from warfare, whether narrative or poetic, this is a book to have.

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