A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans (A Latitude 20 Book) [Paperback]

Louis Baldovi (Editor)

Book Description

Series: A Latitude 20 Book | Publication Date: October 2002

A Foxhole View is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the infantry -- told in the distinctive voices of Hawaii's soldiers.

"A terrific read. A Foxhole View tells an important story of fear, heroism, brotherhood, and courage. It is at one and the same time a gritty, horrible and glorious story. I found myself awed by the everyday, humble, matter-of-fact valor of these men." --- Dan Boylan, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, and co-author of John A. Burns: The Man and His Times

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A Latitude 20 Book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Louis Baldovi served as a rifleman with the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division during the Korean War. After his reenlistment in 1953, he was assigned to the Hawaiian Infantry Training Center at Schofield Barracks as an instructor and drill sergeant. He later served as a school teacher and principal for twenty-seven years. Baldovi lives in Honolulu.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824826108
• ISBN-13: 978-0824826109
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,242,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Korean War: Remembered, December 24, 2002

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Hiroshi Yamauchi (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans (A Latitude 20 Book) (Paperback)

Louis Baldovi has crafted a masterful work of wartime storytelling from first person experiences of Hawaii's Korean War veterans. Their individual stories are masterfully woven thrugh the sequence of events that defines the Korean War from beginning to end. It's more than just a collection of personal oral histories, it's an integrated account of a Forgotten War than cannot be left forgotten.

You've got to be in the midst of it to know what it's like. and after you've gone through it in the pitch darkness of night, on the battlefields, behind enemy lines, in POW camps - it's not something easy to reminisce about. In fact, for some of the vets, it was better to "forget and erase' in order to go on. For those veterans who did, this was time of their lives that cannot be forgotten. The feelings reach deep and cannot be erased. They told it like it was for only somebody like Louis to relate to us. He was there too.

To me, it's simple but profound. We've heard it many times, "war must be the closet thing to hell." I've never been there, to war or to hell, so I can't be sure. But, if you have a hankering to know for sure, this book will take you close , and perhaps, make you appreciate why they say "War Is Hell." It is not a good place to go, under any circumstance. But, you got read the book. Somehow, I found it strangely touching the soul.