Military History Author Event

Special event with the author of Ghost Flames Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, Charles J. Hanley.

For more information contact Jerry Monaghan at ltcgjm@gmail.com

ABOUT Ghost Flames Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953:

A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer

Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest

secrets. The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history -- as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. In this vivid, emotionally compelling, and highly original account, Charles J. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of twenty individuals who lived through it-- from a North Korean refugee girl to an American nun, a Chinese general to a black American prisoner of war, a British journalist to a U.S. Marine hero.

This is an intimate, deeper kind of history, whose meticulous research and rich detail,

drawing on recently unearthed materials and eyewitness accounts, bring the true face of the Korean War, and the vastness of its human tragedy, into a sharper focus than ever before. The "forgotten war" becomes unforgettable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CHARLES J. HANLEY

Hanley retired from The Associated Press in 2011 after a journalism career of more than 40 years, most of it as a roving global correspondent based at AP headquarters in New York. He reported from some 100 countries on stories ranging from wars and summit conferences to climate change in the Arctic. In 2002-2007 he reported extensively on the crises and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also served as AP assistant managing editor and deputy managing editor in 1987-92. He and his AP collaborators won 11 major journalism awards in 2000, including a Pulitzer Prize, for their reporting on the U.S. military's killing of refugees at No Gun Ri, South Korea, in 1950. He later reported in depth on the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigations of mass civilian deaths in the Korean War. A St. Bonaventure Univ. journalism graduate and an Army journalist in Vietnam, Hanley is a co- author of 2001’s The Bridge at No Gun Ri, hailed by The New Yorker as “a sobering testament to the ravages of combat,” and author of 2020’s Ghost Flames: Life & Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, described by the New York Times Book Review as an “unforgettable” account of the entire Korean War, through the eyes of 20 people who lived through it, soldiers and civilians, Koreans, Americans and others.