The Korean Conflict

Author : Burton Kaufman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007632
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean Conflict written by Burton Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neglected war in the history of the United States, the Korean conflict played a key role in greatly expanding America's commitments worldwide and contributed to the U.S. decision to engage in direct military action in Vietnam fifteen years later. This up-to-date, readable analysis and ready-reference guide to the Korean War is designed to help students and interested readers understand the causes, events, and implications of the War and to provide a wealth of material for student research. Materials include a detailed timeline of events, six topical essays on various aspects of the war and its impact, seventeen lengthy biographical profiles of key players, the text of fifteen important primary documents, a glossary, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography. Following an introductory essay that explains the causes and history of the war, five topical essays examine the Western Alliance and, in particular, our relations with Great Britain over the War, an analysis and new insights on the role of the Soviet Union and China, the Chinese Communist intervention, the prisoners of war issue, and the meaning and implications of the Korean conflict. Primary documents include the text of speeches, memoranda, telegrams, and official government reports. Biographical sketches provide thorough discussion of the role of major players in the conflict. A section of photographs complements the text. Because it is based on the most recent scholarship and written for the high school and college student researcher, it is the ideal companion to a study of the Korean conflict and its implications for post-World War II America.

Author : Hajimu Masuda
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674598474
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( 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.

Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393068498
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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.

Author : Wada Haruki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538116421
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( 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.

Author : Burton Ira Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Burton Ira Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur H. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660133X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Korean War written by Arthur H. Mitchell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from the inside--the nuts and bolts of armed conflict. The perspective is American, with the principal focus on the relationships of the people involved: North and South Koreans, the Chinese and Soviets, and how the U.S. and its allies engaged with them all. The lives of ordinary soldiers are examined--U.S. forces, with attention paid to the other side as well. The book examines such important aspects of military operations as supplies, equipment and weapons, tactics and strategy, intelligence, and psychological warfare, as well as the effective elimination of racial segregation in the U.S. military. Also studied is the vexing matter of prisoners of war, on both sides. Finally, there is an effort to fit Korea into the generalities of American military experience in Asia, from the war with Japan to Vietnam.

Author : Rosemary Foot
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734601
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrong War written by Rosemary Foot and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, General Omar Bradley declared publicly that war with China would involve the United States "in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Despite the stated intent of the U.S. to keep the Korean conflict from spreading, the debate on extending the war was far more intense and protracted than previous accounts of this period have suggested. Concentrating on the debate over expansion, Rosemary Foot reveals the strains it caused both within the U.S. bureaucracy and between America and its North Atlantic allies. She supplies important new information on the U.S. government's appraisal of Sino-Soviet relations between 1950 and 1953, and makes clear that a high proportion of U.S. officials came to recognize the limited nature of Soviet support for China. Explaining why the Eisenhower administration nearly unleashed nuclear weapons on China in the spring of 1953, Foot demonstrates that the Korean war would very likely have grown into a conflict of major proportions if the Chinese and North Koreans had not conceded the final issue of the truce talks—the question of the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war.

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297896X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( 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.

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597978787
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Kind of War written by T. R. Fehrenbach and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it. Partly drawn from official records, operations journals, and histories, it is based largely on the compelling personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops. Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn you were there account of American troops in fierce combat against th.

Author : Andrew J. Birtle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519236241
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Andrew J. Birtle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War was the first major armed clash between Free World and Communist forces, as the so-called Cold War turned hot. The half-century that now separates us from that conflict, however, has dimmed our collective memory. Many Korean War veterans have considered themselves forgotten, their place in history sandwiched between the sheer size of World War II and the fierce controversies of the Vietnam War. The recently built Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall and the upcoming fiftieth anniversary commemorative events should now provide well-deserved recognition. The Korean War still has much to teach us: about military preparedness, about global strategy, about combined operations in a military alliance facing blatant aggression, and about the courage and perseverance of the individual soldier. The modern world still lives with the consequences of a divided Korea and with a militarily strong, economically weak, and unpredictable North Korea. The Korean War was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over and near the Korean peninsula. It lasted three years, the first of which was a seesaw struggle for control of the peninsula, followed by two years of positional warfare as a backdrop to extended cease-fire negotiations. The following is one of five accessible and readable studies designed to enhance understanding of the U.S. Army's role and achievements in the Korean conflict.