Roy Edgar ApplemanRidgway Duels for Korea (Texas a & M University Military History Series)

Well written and a great value

Great detail - both at a tactical level as well as an operational level

I was excited to read this book, but was quite disappointed to find a significant factual error early on in it. The author says MBR visited the CPs of the 101st AB and 82d AB at Eindhoven, where both divisions dropped in Holland and where the British 1st AB was destroyed. In fact, only the 101st dropped at Eindhoven. The 82d dropped at Nijmegen and the British 1st dropped at Arnhem (the famous "bridge too far.") This section obviously referred to Operation Market-Garden. While this book is not primarily concerned with WWII, but the Korean War, such an error can't be attributed to poor editing. It is indicative of carelessness on the part of the author's research, and puts the credibility of the entire work into question for me. In fairness, at this point I decided to put the book down and subsequently, never finished it. So, I didn't read the whole book. However, IMHO, this sort of gross factual error is inexcusable by an award-winning official US Army historian.

Historical

Excellent book, well written and thoroughly documented.