6/25/2023 0 Comments Ghost Flames by Charles J. Hanley![]() ![]() Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, Charles J Hanley (PublicAffairs, August 2020) The details of the story were challenged by West Point professor and military historian Robert Bateman (who served in the 7th Cavalry in the 1990s), who acknowledged that civilians were killed by US forces, but questioned Hanley’s sources, research and objectivity, and his downplaying of the impact of the “fog of war” on that tragedy. Hanley and his team of AP reporters won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for their investigative reporting on the killing of South Korean civilians near No Gun Ri by soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry. While it does include stories of atrocities committed during war by both sides, those stories are weighted heavily against the United States and its South Korean ally. ![]() ![]() You cannot refine it.” In Ghost Flames, former Associated Press (AP) reporter Charles J Hanley writes about the cruelty of the Korean War-and the impacts it had on some ordinary soldiers, civilians, and even some military commanders. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman remarked during the American Civil War: “War is cruelty. ![]()
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