At the heart of David Halberstam's massive and powerful ... His pounding narrative, in which GIs and generals describe their coldest winter, whisks the reader along, even though we know the ...

No "Mission Accomplished" banner has ever been flaunted about the Korean War, but the ...

The next day, he approached Halberstam. “David,” Kovach said ... as an authorless book tour for his last work, "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War." ...

Leave it to Halberstam to show us, in “The Coldest Winter,” that this was a war ... his magisterial, last book. David Takami is the author of “Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese ...

In the early hours of June 25 1950, half a million North Korean Communist troops poured across the 38th parallel into South Korea, launching one of the most savage conflicts of the 20th century.

The conflict that David Halberstam calls a "black hole" in ... As Halberstam recounts with mounting indignation in The Coldest Winter, some of the worst decisions in Korea were based on skewed ...

A short film celebrates the final work of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, left, “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.” Joan Didion, Anna Quindlen, Bob Woodward ...

David Halberstam’s wife thinks he would be pleased. When Halberstam’s final book, “The Coldest Winter,” is published this month, celebrated authors and former colleagues will step in to do ...

“The Coldest Winter” serves as a kind of prequel to “The Best and the Brightest,” the book that gave David Halberstam his first great publishing success. David Halberstam’s last ...