Muffled Shots/dmz

By William Roskey

Book Overview

Korea. The mid-sixties. Smell the black coffee, diesel fuel, sweat, and gunpowder as you join Team Delta courageously defending the DMZ from North Korean line crossers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595149510
• ISBN13: 9780595149513
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Yes, men died here too!!

While Vietnam held the print and broadcast headlines, there was another place in this world where American soldiers lived and died. That place was Korea in the 1960's. The war that never ended. Men of the 2nd and 7th Divisions guarded an 18 mile strip of what was called the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ). With gaurd posts near the middle of the DMZ, daily patrols in the DMZ and another line of defence at the Southern end of the DMZ, these American soldiers attempted to keep North Koreans from infiltrating into South Korea to spy upon, ambush and assasinate Americans and South Koreans. The North Koreans also ambushed our patrols and tried to infiltrate our defensive outposts and lines. Dozens of Americans were casualties, but most are only known to their friends and families. For this low intensity conflict did not warrant much publicity. This book is one of three fictional accounts of that time. Although I did not do what these men did, I was there. Senior Medic(SP5) to Bravo Company, 1st Bn, 23rd Inf, 2nd Infantry Division. I was wounded by friendly fire on 9 July 1969 in the DMZ. The other novels are by an artillery officer entitled North of the River and by an infantry officer called The Fence-Walker. For good reviews read those wrtten already. I can add nothing to them, but I can let the reader know that Americans and many South Korean soldiers gave their lives to keep South Korea free. To read a true account of the period pick up Major Daniel P. Bulger's, War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966 to 1969. It is a Leavenworth Paper, Number 19. He does an excellent job. Jimmy Carter withdrew the 7th Division during his term as President and no American Unit defends the DMZ today. Part of the 2nd Division still holds precarious positions between Seoul and the DMZ.

War still continues. Excellent account.

Mr. Roskey does a great job of telling the story of an unknown war with unsung heroes. I served in the DMZ in the 80s, and much of what was in this book was what I saw during my time as well. The ground surveillance radars were different models, but we used essentially the same technology and same methods to deal with communist NKPA troops who tried to disrupt the lives of South Koreans. Freedom is not free, and many men paid serious prices for freedom in areas that were not even considered to be "official" battlefields. Yet, the bullets and mortar rounds still flew on both sides of the DMZ, UN combat patrols still engaged the enemy, and many Americans did not go home alive after encounters with a brutal enemy. Mr. Roskey, your book can probably only be understood fully by a DMZ veteran and a radar site GSR troop, but I commend you for writing it. I still have the original paperback I picked up at the Camp Casey PX and cherish it. I will buy the new version, to have another copy too. Please write more on the DMZ - it is not known well nor understood by the general public. It truly is WAR there.

Unfinished Korean War:DMZ 1960's

Like the author, Bill Roskey, I was in the Army in Korea in the mid to late 60's. The DMZ was a dangerous and sometimes deadly place during those days. Roskey's book has captured the time and place of an unknown conflict, where 88 American soldiers werer killed and 111 wounded from 1966 to 1969. No one, but the ones who were there and the families of the dead knew what went on there. Roskey also captures the love which infantry soldiers have for their buddies, though none of us would have called it that. At a time when Vietnam was the big story, thousands of America's sons served in Korea, enduring harsh weather, and quick firefights with tough North Korean commandos in the DMZ, so that South Korea could become the economic power it is today. The story of these soldiers needed to be told and Bill Roskey has done so in this book.