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The Korean War at Sixty

Author : Steven Casey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317977114
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War at Sixty written by Steven Casey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea used to be the ‘forgotten war.’ Now, however, experts widely view it as a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War, while its legacy still scars contemporary East Asian politics. The sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War is a fitting time both to assess the current state of historiography on the conflict and to showcase new research on its different dimensions. This book contains six essays by leading experts in the field. These essays explore all aspects of the war, from collective security and alliance relations, to home front politics and historical memory. They are also international in scope, focusing not just on the familiar Western belligerents but also on the actions of the two Koreas, China and the Soviet Union. These stimulating essays shed new light on various aspects of the Korean War experience, as well as examining why the war remains so important to the politics of the region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Studies.

The Korean War

Author : Wada Haruki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538116421
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Wada Haruki and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history of the Korean War—from its origins through the armistice—is now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introduction that considers the heightened danger of a new Northeast Asian war as Trump and Kim Jong-un escalate their rhetoric. Wada Haruki, one of the world’s leading scholars of the war, draws on archival and other primary sources in Russia, China, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to provide the first full understanding of the Korean War as an international conflict from the perspective of all the actors involved. Wada traces the North Korean invasion of South Korea in riveting detail, providing new insights into the behavior of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee. He also provides new insights into the behavior of Communist leaders in Korea, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, and their rivals in other nations. He traces the course of the war from its origins in the North and South Korean leaders’ failed attempts to unify their country by force, ultimately escalating into a Sino-American war on the Korean Peninsula. Although sixty-five years have passed since the armistice, the Korean conflict has never really ended. Tensions remain high on the peninsula as Washington and Pyongyang, as well as Seoul and Pyongyang, continue to face off. It is even more timely now to address the origins of the Korean War, the nature of the confrontation, and the ways in which it affects the geopolitical landscape of Northeast Asia and the Pacific region. With his unmatched ability to draw on sources from every country involved, Wada paints a rich and full portrait of a conflict that continues to generate controversy.

Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393068498
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea written by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Korean War that explains how it started and why it still has not technically ended, and describes how North Korea continues to stockpile weapons while its people go without the basic necessities of life.

Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240665
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea written by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most balanced and comprehensive account of the Korean War." —The Economist Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers—again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the middle of the Second World War—when Korean independence was fiercely debated between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—to the present day, as North Korea, with China’s aid, stockpiles nuclear weapons while starving its people. At the center of this conflict is an ongoing struggle between North and South Korea for the mantle of Korean legitimacy, a "brother’s war," which continues to fuel tensions on the Korean peninsula and the region. Drawing from newly available diplomatic archives in China, South Korea, and the former Soviet Union, Jager analyzes top-level military strategy. She brings to life the bitter struggles of the postwar period and shows how the conflict between the two Koreas has continued to evolve to the present, with important and tragic consequences for the region and the world. Her portraits of the many fascinating characters that populate this history—Truman, MacArthur, Kim Il Sung, Mao, Stalin, and Park Chung Hee—reveal the complexities of the Korean War and the repercussions this conflict has had on lives of many individuals, statesmen, soldiers, and ordinary people, including the millions of hungry North Koreans for whom daily existence continues to be a nightmarish struggle. The most accessible, up-to date, and balanced account yet written, illustrated with dozens of astonishing photographs and maps, Brothers at War will become the definitive chronicle of the struggle’s origins and aftermath and its global impact for years to come.

The Korean War

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297896X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Bruce Cumings and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.

The Korean War

Author : Brian Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756518219
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Brian Fitzgerald and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the United States' role in the Korean War and President Truman's leadership.

The Korean War

Author : Stanley Sandler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824044459
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Stanley Sandler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cold War Crucible

Author : Hajimu Masuda
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674598474
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Crucible written by Hajimu Masuda and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.–Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.

Selling the Korean War

Author : Steven Casey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199719174
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Selling the Korean War written by Steven Casey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public. Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores the government's selling activities from all angles. He looks at the halting and sometimes chaotic efforts of Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. He examines the relationships that they and their subordinates developed with a host of other institutions, from Congress and the press to Hollywood and labor. And he assesses the complex and fraught interactions between the military and war correspondents in the battlefield theater itself. From high politics to bitter media spats, Casey guides the reader through the domestic debates of this messy, costly war. He highlights the actions and calculations of colorful figures, including Senators Robert Taft and JHoseph McCarthy, and General Douglas MacArthur. He details how the culture and work routines of Congress and the media influenced political tactics and daily news stories. And he explores how different phases of the war threw up different problems - from the initial disasters in the summer of 1950 to the giddy prospects of victory in October 1950, from the massive defeats in the wake of China's massive intervention to the lengthy period of stalemate fighting in 1952 and 1953.

Korea: Where the American Century Began

Author : Michael Pembroke
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781786076618
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Korea: Where the American Century Began written by Michael Pembroke and published by ONEWorld Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the Korean peninsula has become the nuclear flashpoint it is today, and how the 1950-3 war marked the beginning of the American century

On Desperate Ground

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101971215
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book On Desperate Ground written by Hampton Sides and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic--and harrowing--operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea. Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances. Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, "Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives."

The Korean War

Author : R. G. Grant
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836856668
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by R. G. Grant and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the military conflict between North and South Korea, discussing the roots of the conflict in the Cold War and the consequences that have maintained the artificial barrier that divides the Korean peninsula into two countries.

The Korean War

Author : Steven Hugh Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882237
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Steven Hugh Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 war offers a new approach to its understanding, tracing its origins and dynamics to the interplay between modern Korean history and twentieth century world history. The narrative also uniquely examines the social history of the conflict, and includes material on the newly racially integrated US fighting forces, war and disease, women and war and life in the Prisoner of War camps. While most surveys stop at 1953, with the signing of the armistice, Steven Hugh Lee carries the story through to the Geneva Conference in the spring of 1954 the last major international effort before recent years to negotiate a permanent peace for the Korean peninsula.

Operation Broken Reed

Author : Arthur L. Boyd
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 078673261X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Operation Broken Reed written by Arthur L. Boyd and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence -- gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man -- sworn to secrecy for a half-century -- survived Operation Broken Reed. Arthur Boyd recalls his role as cryptographer on a team of Army Rangers, Navy Frogmen, Air Force officers, and CIA operatives that posed as the captured crew of a B-29 bomber in January 1952. Given cover names and cyanide capsules in case of discovery, the men were transported by Chinese Nationalists wearing Communist uniforms across North Korea, where undercover allies delivered information about troop strengths, weaponry, and intention. Fraught with danger, the mission came apart on its last day when the Americans came under fire from Chinese forces wise to the operation. The members of Broken Reed supplied Truman with proof of massive Chinese and Soviet buildups and a heavy Soviet bomber group in Manchuria, fully loaded with atomic weapons. With the potential destruction of the world outlined in front of him, Truman chose not to escalate the Korean War, saving millions of lives.

Public Information

Author : ROLF C MARGENAU
Publisher : Frogworks Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0997615834
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Public Information written by ROLF C MARGENAU and published by Frogworks Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CANDIDE meets MASH. How the Korean War began, why it's relevant today. Freshly minted infantryman, twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher, arrives in war torn Korea in 1952. As an enemy bomber looms overhead, he prays that he can survive a sixteen-month tour of duty. Wylie is recruited to join the staff of a Division Public Information Office (PIO) where he reports on many aspects of the conflict. He uses his infantry training in bloody combat, makes many colorful new friends, learns how to maneuver through the military system, finds love and loss, and grows up in the turmoil of combat and the war's aftermath. Veterans have hailed the story as accurate, believable, touching, funny, and "the way it really was." The novel is based on the author's experiences and careful historical research. He touches on prisoner of war experiences on both sides of the DMZ, the armistice, realistic scenes of combat, the many United Nations forces engaged in the war, and poignant and funny aspects of military service. The second edition of the book includes recently disclosed information, and scenes and observations drawn from the comments of many veteran readers. The book is dedicated to the dwindling number of men and women who risked their lives to preserve democracy in South Korea.

A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535112
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600 written by JaHyun Kim Haboush and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king. Arranged and printed in the seventeenth century as Kanyangnok, or The Record of a Shepherd, Kang's writings were extremely valuable to his government, offering new perspective on a society few Koreans had encountered in 150 years and new information on Japanese politics, culture, and military organization. In this complete, annotated translation of Kanyangnok, Kang ruminates on human behavior and the nature of loyalty during a time of war. A neo-Confucianist with a deep knowledge of Chinese philosophy and history, Kang drew a distinct line between the Confucian values of his world, which distinguished self, family, king, and country, and a foreign culture that practiced invasion and capture, and, in his view, was largely incapable of civilization. Relating the experiences of a former official who played an exceptional role in wartime and the rare voice of a Korean speaking plainly and insightfully on war and captivity, this volume enables a deeper appreciation of the phenomenon of war at home and abroad.

The Korean War

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691016240
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by William Stueck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history and analysis of the Korean War, focusing on the contributions of the United Nations, diplomacy of the conflict, and its role in the Cold War.