On Thanksgiving Day 1950, American-led United Nations troops were on the march in North Korea. U.S. Marine and Air Force pilots distributed holiday meals. Hopes were high that everyone would be home by Christmas. But soon after that peaceful celebration, American military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, were caught off guard by the entrance of the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong, into the five-month-old Korean War.
Kissinger is the story of the brilliant powerbroker who rose to the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Revered or reviled, Henry Kissinger’s contradictions reflect those at the heart of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century.
Kissinger es la historia del brillante personaje, poderoso e influyente, que ascendió a las más altas esferas de la diplomacia estadounidense. Venerado o denostado, las contradicciones de Henry Kissinger reflejan las que se encontraban en el centro de la política exterior estadounidense en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.
Five months into the Korean War, American troops found themselves surrounded by Chinese troops, and at risk of annihilation in the frozen Chosin Reservior.
Lillian Kinkela Keil was one of the most decorated women in WWII and the Korean War, with 11 battle stars, four air medals and more than 450 air evacuations in Europe and in Korea.
