Halberstam book recalls `forgotten war'
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"The Coldest Winter" (Hyperion; $35; 719 pages), by David Halberstam: In what fate made his final book, David Halberstam remembered a "forgotten" war, exploring the 1950-53 Korean conflict with 719 pages of foxhole-level heroism and command-level folly. It's a work destined to endure as a popular history of one of America's most unpopular wars.
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To the long and growing list of the Bush administration&#39;s pre-war and post-war misjudgments in Iraq, add a missed opportunity that might have averted much of the bloodshed that has marked the US occupation.
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NEW YORK, NY -- OCTOBER 29 -- When the New York Times reported on Monday (10/25/04) that over 300 tons of high-explosive materials appeared to be missing from an Iraqi weapons facility, it was no surprise that the Bush administration and conservative
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Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.
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Findings and recommendations by recent studies on the Iraq war:
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Two important new books help understand why Venezuela's leftist president is considered both a national hero  and a flawed demagogue
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Politicians who argue so vehemently that we remember history seem to have forgotten the Armenian Genocide following World War I, the Holocaust of World War II and the brutal ethnic cleansings in Cambodia, Serbia and Rwanda.
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"There was a time, in the aftermath of September 11, when this magazine liked what it heard from George W. Bush. He said America was at war - not merely with an organization, but with a totalitarian ideology. And he pledged to defeat Islamist totalitarianism the same way we defeated European totalitarianism, by spreading democracy. For a publication that has long believed in the marriage of liberalism and American power, this was the right analysis. And its correctness mattered more than the limitations of the man from which it came."  "Three years later, it has become tragically clear that the two cannot be separated. The president's war on terrorism, which initially offered a striking cont ...
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The Korean War has been called âthe forgotten war,â and âMissing in MIG Alley,â on PBS on Tuesday night, illustrates a little-known chapter.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Not since the Vietnam War more than three decades ago has the United States found itself waging a bloody conflict abroad as a fierce political argument has broken out at home
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âThe Coldest Winterâ caps a brilliant journalistic career in a particularly satisfying way since it serves as a kind of prequel to âThe Best and the Brightest,â the book that gave David Halberstam his first great publishing success.
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VENICE, Italy  - Paul Verhoeven's World   War II drama "Black Book" is an ambitious throwback to the days   of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid   loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy.
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A German historian on Thursday published a set of top-secret maps of Nazi Germany's arms industry that were seized from Hermann Goering, the chief of Adolf Hitler's air force, at the end of World War II.
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A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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A new book, âRescuing Da Vinci,â chronicles the efforts of Allied officers and soldiers to save and repatriate stolen treasures during and after the war.
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RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw. By Norman Davies. Viking. 752 pages. $32.95. War is hell; that much we know.