The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953

“The Forgotten War captures the intensity of the conflict through the eyes of senior officers, explaining defeats and victories from the perspective of the U.S. battalion, regiment, and division commanders responsible for the war’s progress. As a collective portrait of the American officer corps at war, the book is uniquely valuable.” Highly critical of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s leadership during the period, Blair also takes President Truman to task for his misjudgments and occasionally faults the conduct of corps and division commanders while offering unstinting praise for Gen. Matthew Ridgway’s turnaround of a demoralized field army. This day-by-day, unit-by-unit account of what went on provides details unmatched in other books on the subject.