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Cargando... The Blue House Raid: American Infantry and the Korean DMZ Conflictpor Robert Perron
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Disco_grinch | May 1, 2024 |    Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.I have mixed feelings about this book. . . . Perron's writing style is excellent. He does a fantastic job of setting the scene and alternating between different characters and different points of view. I really liked the chapters involving Pak Jun-Seok, a North Korean soldier. A sizable portion of the plot is dedicated to depictions of troop movements across the combat zones, which is to be expected with a military novel. However, the titular incident encompasses a mere chapter of the book. There are actually more scenes of the prostitution of young Korean women than there are of the Blue House Raid, and this detracts from the main premise of the novel. The latter chapters introduce a female character, Eun-Ae, who would have been a better addition to the plot earlier in the novel; placed too late in the story, her presence does little to develop any real interest. The novel's conclusion ties some of the disparate elements involving the male characters together, but not so for the female characters. One wonders why women were included in the plot at all. (  ) msoul13 | Nov 30, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Blue House Raid was a lesser-known conflict of the Vietnam era that played out in Korea, testing American and South Korean resolve when North Korea launched a daring attack to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee in his residence near Seoul. However, this novel of the same name is more than a description of a failed incursion. The author, a former U.S. Army soldier who spent 13 months along the DMZ, develops fictional characters who enable a grander weave of the relationships of the American and Korean soldiers along the DMZ, as well as the Korean people impacted by the soldiers' presence, especially the working girls in the scattered villages nearby. Even the North Korean soldiers in the invasion are brought to life with crisp clarity in The Blue House Raid, allowing a hint of empathy for these young men who were controlled by their propagandist government. Author Robert Perron culls from his vivid familiarity of the time and subject as well as those of his fellow South Korean friends to paint not only a gripping and sometimes tragic story, but in the process narrates a fascinating military history of those forgotten times, which are as dire now as they were then. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I had this book on my TBR pile for a while and FINALLY got around to it and I really enjoyed it.
It was an interesting and well-written story told from multiple perspectives about the "Blue House raid" carried out by North Korean commandos in an attempt to assassinate the South Korean president at the time, Park Chung Hee, in his residence at Korea's equivalent of the White House in Seoul, January 21, 1968. (