Living Through the Forgotten War: Portrait of Korea

ISBN-10: 0972970401
ISBN-13: 9780972970402
Category: History / Wars & Conflicts / General
Pages: 49
Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University
Author: Patrick Dowdey

Description

Photographs depict the people who lived through the "forgotten war" in the early fifties in moving portraits that present an indelible witness to the upheaval which caught all on the peninsula--Korean, GI, POW--in an irresistible tide of change. These people caught in war share a silent unity that bridges the categories of North, South, civilian, soldier, and prisoner. They become a part of history and memory.

The photographs are drawn from the tens of thousands taken by U.S. Army photographers during the Korean War. They present a new vision of a civil war that, as it metastized into a superpower face off, left the people in Korea caught in the space of everyday life between battle and blood, where individuals struggle to eke out a living just to get to the next day. The images catch the faces of people in a war, the Korean landscape--at once bucolic and dangerous--and the simplicity of a centuries-old way of life that would change profoundly under the drop forge of the war. The photographs are accompanied by ground-breaking essays that reexamine basic assumptions about the war and Korea's subsequent history.

Patrick Dowdey is curator of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Bruce Cumings is Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago and author of Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. John Oh is professor emeritus of political science, Catholic University, and author of Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development.

Get the book

Similar books

Latin America's Wars: The age of the Professional Soldier, 1900-2001
By Robert L. Scheina
Commander John Hubbard , the commanding officer of the cruiser Nashville , found the following cable waiting for him at ... they landed at 8:30 A.M. The General Superintendent of the Panama Railway , J. R. Shaler , being privy to the ...
Napoleon: A Biographical Companion
By David Nicholls
Describes the life, achievements, rise to power, and influences of the military leader who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established dominance over Europe.
The Who's who of the Anglo-Zulu War: Colonials and Zulus
By Ian Knight, Adrian Greaves
The Who's who of the Anglo-Zulu War: Colonials and Zulus
The American Revolution: A Picture Sourcebook
By John Grafton
This book of over 400 illustrations is a vast pictorial sourcebook and informal history of the American Revolution.
Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present
By David Marley
Having arrived four days previously at Tampa Bay from New Orleans with a relief force, Major General Gaines strikes inland with 1,000 men and a 6-pounder to reinforce Clinch in central Florida. After departing Fort King on 26 February, ...
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
By Frank McLynn
... 310, 311, 326 Leyrit, Duval de 168, 174, 175-6, 179, 181, 187, 190 Ligneris, Captain 148, 149, 150, 151, 152 Ligonier, Field Marshal Sir John 44, 96, 98, 204, 233,234 Lion 250 Lippstadt, siege of (1759) 265, 268, 270 Lisbon.
1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns
By Michael Livingston, Kelly DeVries
The Motte-and-Bailey Castle One of the most effective, easily and quickly built fortifications, the motte-and-bailey castle, was used by William the Conqueror during and after his invasion of England. Simply described, the motte part of ...
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898
By John Lawrence Tone
Fernandez, Damian 1., and Madeline Cámara Betancourt, eds. Cuba, the Elusive Nation: Interpretations ofNational Identity. Gainesville, Fla., 2000. Fernandez, Frank. Cuban Anarchism: The History ofa Movement. Translated by Charles Bufe.
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
By Jill Lepore
... ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1958 ) . On Forrest vs. Macready , American vs. European , see Grimsted , Melodrama Unveiled , 68–75 ; Levine , Highbrow , Lowbrow , 63–68 . 36. Quoted in Levine , Highbrow , Lowbrow , 66 .
Grant Rises in the West: The first year, 1861-1862
By Kenneth Powers Williams
... General Samuel R. Curtis , a regular officer who had brought the Second Iowa Volunteers into service , was in command . Curtis reported that Fremont never consulted him nor told him his plans ; while he would feel free to go to ...