The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

by Jeff Shaara

The South Korean people enjoy one of the highest standards of living in all of Asia. In contrast, North Korea is possibly the most repressive and isolated society in the world, where the starvation of the citizenry is an acceptable condition of militarism.

To this day, Korea remains an open sore, a war that had no end, where men with guns watch each other across walls of barbed wire.

Historian David Halberstam describes Smith as “one of the great, quiet heroes of the Korean War.”

MacArthur possesses an almost magical ability to intimidate, so much so that his superiors feel powerless to interfere in his control of the United Nations forces in Korea.

“All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time.” —COLONEL LEWIS “CHESTY” PULLER