Firebase Gloria and Pork Chop Hill (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

Hi All,

Saw these two oldies. Vietnam and Korean wars respectively.
I remember both were highly recommended on this website. Good recommendations. Lots of action in both movies. Thx.

Rgds Victor

 

[lancer]

Hi All,

Saw these two oldies. Vietnam and Korean wars respectively.
I remember both were highly recommended on this website. Good recommendations. Lots of action in both movies. Thx.

Rgds Victor

The Director of 'Pork Chop Hill' was Lewis Milestone, who was the director of some of Hollywood's best war films. He directed 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'The North Star', 'The Purple Heart', 'A Walk in the Sun', 'The Halls of Montezuma', as well as Pork Cop and other well known films like 'Ocean's 11'. Milestone did some great work. -- Al

 

[ivanmoe]

Pork Chop Hill may not make a lot of sense to the uninformed viewer. However, the U.S./U.N. were losing the equivalent of a battalion a week and the war was wearing thin with the public. Simply put, "folks wanted it over with." For a better understanding of the fracas, I'd recommend the VERY readable This Kind of War, by T.R. Fehrenbach. The book is well written, and ties the war's military, political and historical elements together quite nicely.

-Moe

 

[lancer]

Pork Chop Hill may not make a lot of sense to the uninformed viewer. However, the U.S./U.N. were losing the equivalent of a battalion a week and the war was wearing thin with the public. Simply put, "folks wanted it over with." For a better understanding of the fracas, I'd recommend the VERY readable This Kind of War, by T.R. Fehrenbach. The book is well written, and ties the war's military, political and historical elements together quite nicely.

-Moe

Good book. I read it close to 45/50 years ago and still think it one of the best on that war. -- Al

 

[combatmen]

Pork Chop Hill may not make a lot of sense to the uninformed viewer. However, the U.S./U.N. were losing the equivalent of a battalion a week and the war was wearing thin with the public. Simply put, "folks wanted it over with." For a better understanding of the fracas, I'd recommend the VERY readable This Kind of War, by T.R. Fehrenbach. The book is well written, and ties the war's military, political and historical elements together quite nicely.

-Moe

Great book. If you want to learn about the Korean War this is a must read.

 

[ucla1967]

I can also recommend S.L.A. Marshall's book "Pork Chop Hill" which I believe the movie was based on.

 

[lancer]

Another Korean War title I really enjoyed is Eric Hammel's 'Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War'. Lots of detail and well written. -- Al