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." ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Journalist David Halberstam, who produced a steady stream ... up for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. His book "The Coldest Winter," an account of a key early battle of the Korean War, is ...