The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

by David Halberstam

Hyperion

September 2007, 736 pages, $35.00

by Carlin Romano

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

In the inimitable manner that the famously ambitious author constructed his first sort, The Coldest Winter comes at you not like one but two of the actual tanks that rumble across its pages.
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