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Granfield, Linda , Granfield, Linda

I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950â€“53

136 pp. | Clarion | November, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-618-17740-X $$16.00

(4) YA It's rare that veteran's war stories make it out of the VFW Post and into juvenile literature, and Granfield has used thirty of them to give a picture of "the Forgotten War." While the accounts are often vivid, the events of the war itself are less so and not always clear; readers might be best served by supplementing the book with a straightforward history text. Snapshots of the veterans are included, as is a foreword by Russell Freedman giving his own Korean War story.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton