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Such Men as These
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 18.00The gripping exploits of United States Navy combat pilots during the Korean War?heroes who inspired James Michener?s classic, The Bridges at Toko-Ri more...
Passing the Test
The University Press of Kentucky 2011; US$ 40.00For U.S. and UN soldiers fighting the Korean War, the spring of 1951 was brutal. The troops faced a tough and determined foe under challenging conditions. The Chinese Spring Offensive of 1951 exemplified the hardships of the war, as the UN forces struggled with the Chinese troops over Line Kansas, a phase line north of the 38th parallel, in a conflict... more...
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism.... more...
MASH
The University Press of Kentucky 2001; US$ 35.00" When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery.... more...
Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated
Wiley 2011; US$ 24.95An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan, the man, his motives, and the mechanisms of his... more...
Der Petrarkismus - ein europäischer Gründungsmythos
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 43.03Hauptbeschreibung Einer der Inauguratoren der europäischen Frühen Neuzeit ist Francesco Petrarca. An ihn knüpft man unter thematischen, formal-ästhetischen, poetologischen, geschichts- und kunstphilosophischen sowie gesellschaftlichen oder kulturprogrammatischen Gesichtspunkten an. Die europäischen Intellektuellen orientieren sich am >Gesamtmodell... more...
From Pusan to Panmunjom
Potomac Books Inc. 1999; US$ 8.95The memoir of the twenty-nine year-old man who became South Korea's first four-star general. With photographs and a foreword by the commanders of U.S. forces in the war. more...
Defiant Failed State
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 29.95Delineates the challenges posed by North Korea more...
To The Last Round
Aurum Press 2010; US$ 10.49With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory, and with British forces now engaged in a lengthy, brutal and attritional old-fashioned war in Afghanistan, historical attention is starting to turn to the Korean War of the early 1950s. And remarkably, the most notorious and celebrated battle in that conflict, from a British point of view,... more...
Between Ally and Partner
Columbia University Press 2006; US$ 28.99China and South Korea have come a long way since they were adversaries. The arc of their relationship since the late 1970s is an excellent model of East-West cooperation and, at the same time, highlights the growing impact of China's "rise" over its regional neighbors, including America's close allies. South Korea-China relations have rarely been... more...









