The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form. 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.

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 45 years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy.