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The Korean War: A History

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Korean War: A History
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bruce Cumings
SeriesModern Library Chronicles
Series part Volume No. 33
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 131
Category/GenreKorean war
ISBN/Barcode 9780812978964
ClassificationsDewey:951.9042
Audience
General
Illustrations 37 PHOTOS; 4 MAPS

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Modern Library Inc
Publication Date 12 July 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored 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.

Author Biography

Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and specializes in modern Korean history and East Asian-American relations.

Reviews

"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 elegantly presented."-The Wall Street Journal