Portions of the royalties from The Bridge at No Gun Ri will be donated to benefit elderly and other needy of Chu Gok Ri and Im Ke Ri, South Korea, and the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) program at the Veterans Affairs medical center at Fort Meade, South Dakota.

It did not report the existence of at least fourteen U.S. Army documents showing that high-ranking officers ordered or authorized the shooting of refugees during the Korean War’s first months. It acknowledged the existence of only two such directives, previously made public by the Associated Press: the one in the 1st Cavalry Division to “fire

The AP team’s reporting received a series of journalism honors: the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting; the Polk Award for international reporting; South Korea’s Samsung Press Foundation award; the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award; the Overseas Press Club’s Ross Award for reporting on the human condition; Johns

The full declassified source documents for The Bridge at No Gun Ri can be viewed at www.henryholt.com.

Chu Gok Ri. Each morning her son opened his window in the sleepy village and looked up to see her there. Downhill, among the chattering magpies, another mound rose on the grassy slope, where the schoolteacher Chung Koo-ok, the pride of Chu Gok Ri, lay in her maiden’s grave. It bore no marker; Korean custom allows none for the unmarried dead. But

Whenever Chun Choon-ja, one of them, had to take the train to Seoul, she closed her eyes after it pulled out of Hwanggan and didn’t open them again until it had crossed the bridge at No Gun Ri.

The county had more vineyards, 6,000 acres, than any other in South Korea. Where villagers a half-century earlier bent over rice paddy rows, their off-spring now reached up to tend vines.

She looked around at the hillsides, now forested where they weren’t before. “I still felt as though American soldiers were in the hills, but I couldn’t see them because of the woods.”

including almost 50 babies and small children.