"Lets readers experience the Korean War from multiple perspectives, allowing them to choose different paths through history"--
A revisionist account of the controversial war examines perspectives on both sides of the conflict while assessing its cultural contradictions and lasting influence, placing particular focus on the roles of McCarthyism and the media.
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The author, a distinguished military historian, recounts the sequence of military events that formed the war and, based on personal accounts and interviews with hundreds of vets, vividly depicts combat action
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This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III.
The culmination to MacArthur's cavalier behaviour came when his letter to the Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, was made public in early April; in this communication MacArthur ...
Tens of thousands of US soldiers and untold millions of Koreans died in this war the first major arena of the East-West conflict. This concise international history of the...
In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few short months, leading it into battle against the Chinese and North Korean forces, forcing them back over the 38th parallel and ”victory ...
Examines the political climate and military situation that led to the Korean War, and discusses the key people and events of the three-year conflict.
Much of the history of the Korean War has been misinterpreted or obscured.