Operation Nightmare: The Story of America’s Betrayal in Korea and the United Nations

Pat Barham · Frank Cunningham

Jun 2017 · Pickle Partners Publishing

About this ebook

Pat Barham sensed a huge opportunity and jumped at the chance to be assigned to become one of the first war correspondents to report on the Korean War. She knew that she would face many difficulties taking the post, not least of which was that she would be a woman in a very deadly man’s world. She reported back as the eyes and ears of the Hearst corporation and was shocked by the lack of support for the troops that she met on the frontline from Stateside audiences. In this book she records her tumultuous adventures and encounters in Korea among the American and Republic of Korean troops during the seemingly “forgotten war”.

About the author

PAT BARHAM was a widely read Pacific coast newspaperwoman. For 14 years she was “The Gadabout” columnist for the Los Angeles Herald & Express and was personally sent to Korea as a war correspondent by the late William Randolph Hearst.

She attended Marlborough and Westlake School for Girls and the universities of Southern California and Arizona. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Frank F. Barham, former Hearst publisher, and Princess Jessica Meskhi-Gleboff.

Her by-line has appeared in such publications as Western Family, Gusto, Hollywood Magazine and the Nippon Times and she is a former King Features staff writer. She was a staff writer for The Diplomat, the international society magazine. In 1952 she covered the Republican, Democratic and Constitution National Conventions for press and radio. Her book Pinup Poems was published in 1945.

She passed away on November 22, 2016.

FRANK CUNNINGHAM (March 13, 1911 - April 21, 1972) contributed to over fifty different magazines, including Scribner’s-Commentator, Magazine Digest, Flying, National Republic, Catholic Digest, The Sign, St. Anthony’s Messenger and Facts.

He wrote numerous produced radio dramas, including three adventure serials; The Spiders of Chang Fu, Desert Quest and The Mad God. Author of TV and motion picture stories, he was a syndicate editor and had numerous Sunday feature articles in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and Philadelphia Inquirer.

After graduating from Washington and Lee in 1932, he became a United Press and Washington Herald Virginia correspondent and also a radio commentator. He earned M.A. and Litt.D. degrees from Sequoia University, a Ph.D. from St. Andrew’s College, and was a Fellow of Andhra Research University,.

Author of two “best of the year” prize books, Sky Master and Big Dan, he co-authored with Brigadier General William R. White, another prize winner, Red Rock II.