大卫•哈伯斯塔姆，1934年生于纽约市，1955年毕业于哈佛大学，1960年入《纽约时报》华盛顿分社，投入广泛的美国民权运动报道中，1962年成为该报驻越南西贡特派记者。他是美国知名传播学者以及历史学家，美国战地新闻记者，最受美国人尊敬的记者之一，“水门事件”揭发人伍德沃德称其为“记者之父”。1964年，30岁的哈伯斯塔姆因由西贡发回的新闻报道而荣膺当年的普利策奖，美国总统林登•约翰逊因此称其为“国家叛徒”。哈伯斯塔姆曾先后创作了二十多本畅销书，其中包括《最寒冷的冬天》《出类拔萃之辈》。2007年4月23日，哈伯斯塔姆在为他的下一本书进行采访途中因车祸罹难。

《最寒冷的冬天:美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》首度全面揭秘朝鲜战争的真相：硝烟弥漫的20世纪，为什么唯独朝鲜战争让美国人不忍言说却又无法遗忘？这次不再是欲言又止，而是一次全面的检讨。金日成“想用刺刀碰一碰南方的土地”，差点点燃“第三次世界大战”的战火；李承晚军的不堪一击，迫使美国打着联合国的旗号赤裸上阵；斯大林按兵不动背后的战略意图，让毛泽东面临是否派兵入朝的艰难抉择。大卫•哈伯斯塔姆酝酿40多年，耗时10余春秋，完成其生命最后之作——《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》。为创作《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》，他走访了诸多知名图书馆和研究机构，从浩如烟海的资料中探寻历史的隐秘；他访问了100多位散布美国各个角落的朝鲜战争幸存老兵，在无法承受的生命之重中聆听人性的呼唤。朝鲜战争对参战各方来说都是很残酷的。哈伯斯塔姆为我们描绘和剖析了二战后这场“为平局而死”的战争，并从独特的角度得出了关乎历史和未来的一系列发人深思的新结论。

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."

-- The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures-Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden. The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.

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