The Korean War

A History

Bruce Cumings

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Ballantine Books Inc.
15 September 2011

History; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Military history; Korean War; Battles & campaigns

Series: Modern Library Chronicles

From the top scholar in the field, here is the definitive short book on a still-controversial war.

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.

By: Bruce Cumings
Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9780812978964
ISBN 10: 081297896X
Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 September 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Korean War: A History

A powerful revisionist history . . . a sobering corrective. The New York Times Worth reading . . . This work raises the question of what Korea can tell us about the outlook for Iraq and Afghanistan. Financial Times Well-sourced [and] elegantly presented. The Wall Street Journal

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