KOREA - THE FORGOTTEN WAR Bonus Episode

I create bonus episodes as a way of saying “thank you” to all the supporters of the Wheels of History Podcast. In December 2025, due to a long gap in producing new content, I decided to make this bonus episode as well as the bonus episode for the Six Day War series free.

In this episode, I discuss the following topics:

• Why did I choose to do a series on the Korean War?

• My experiences and reflections on serving for three years in Korea

• A discussion and analysis of my source material (hyperlinks included):

  • This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, by T. R. Fehrenbach (1963) 

  • The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam (2008)

  • The Korean War, by Max Hastings (1988)

  • The Korean War, by Matthew B. Ridgway (1967)

  • East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea 1950, by Roy E. Appleman (1987)

  • Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur, by Roy E. Appleman (1989)

  • Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea 1950, by Roy E. Appleman (1990)

• An analysis of the Soviet MiG-15 and American F-86 Sabre jet fighters that dueled over MiG Alley in the Korean War