The Bridge at No Gun Ri is "one of the best books ever to appear on Americans in foreign wars," wrote historian Bruce Cumings, an American scholar of East Asia and the Korean War. On the cover, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Sydney Schanberg said the book is "in a class to stand with such work as Hersey's Hiroshima and Keneally's Schindler's List … powerful history."
Historian Bruce Cumings praised "The Bridge at No Gun Ri" as one of the best books ever written about Americans in foreign wars. Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Sydney Schanberg also lauded the book, comparing it to works like "Hiroshima" by John Hersey and "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally.