The Korean War
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The Korean War

No Victors, No Vanquished

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Korean War

No Victors, No Vanquished

About this book

The Korean War has been termed "The Forgotten War" or the "Unknown War." It is a conflict which never assumed the mythic character of the American Civil War or World War II. However, this book asserts, it would be impossible to understand the Cold War and indeed post 1945 global history without knowledge of the Korean War.

Providing a history of the Korean peninsula before the war and including a detailed analysis of the fighting itself, The Korean War goes beyond the battlefield to deal with the war in the air, ground attack, and air evacuation. The study also evaluates the contributions of the UN naval forces, the impact of the war on various homefronts and issues such as defectors, opposition to the war, racial segregation and integration, POWs and the media.

Recently-released Soviet documents are used to assess the role of China, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea and the allied forces in the conflict. This fascinating work offers a unique analysis of the Korean War and will be invaluable to students of twentieth-century history, particularly those concerned with American and Pacific history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Maps
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 History and background
  10. 3 Invasion and retreat
  11. 4 The Pusan Perimeter
  12. 5 Inchon landings and pursuit northward
  13. 6 The UNC drive north
  14. 7 China's intervention and the second great UN retreat
  15. 8 Chinese offensives and stabilization of the battlelines
  16. 9 The United Nations' first war
  17. 10 The air and naval war
  18. 11 Behind the lines
  19. 12 Home fronts
  20. 13 Fighting and negotiating
  21. 14 Conclusions
  22. Notes
  23. Select bibliography
  24. Chronology
  25. Index