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Korean Warby Stanley Sandler
Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95An interpretative history of the Korean War within the context of Korea's history. The text assesses the role of North and South Korea and allied forces, and evaluates the contribution of UN naval forces and the impact on the homefront. more...
The Unfinished War -- Koreaby Bong K. Lee
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 30.95Are we heading for a new Korean War? Lee presents the history, the current situation, and US involvement, drawing on 25 years in the US and Asia with the Ford Foundation, the UN and the Asian Development Bank, using recently de-classified documents and pe more...
Shield of the Great Leaderby Joseph S. Bermudez
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 29.05The first unclassified account of the armed forces of one of the most isolated and unpredictable nations in Asia - North Korea. more...
The Forgotten Fewby Doug Hurst
Allen & Unwin 2008; US$ 21.78An action-packed story of the men of the RAAF's No 77 fighter squadron, the only RAAF squadron to take part in the Korean War; initially with propeller driven World War II vintage mustangs which were replaced by meteor jet fighters when the Chinese, with their MiG 15s, entered the war. more...
Outpost Kellyby Jack R. Siewert; Paul M Edwards
The University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 15.96In the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks. Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for an infantry battalion on the front, he eventually found himself in the midst of intense fighting for a relatively unknown and unimportant hill, code named Outpost Kelly. Those four days of battle against Chinese forces form the heart of this memoir, which is unique in its focus on the hill fighting that dominated two thirds of the Korean War. Trained to take advantage of his tanks’ mobility, his orders—to provide direct fire support for advancing infantry—along with the mountainous terrain and the torrential monsoon rains that created shin-deep fields of impenetrable mud, forced... more...
A Short History of the Korean Warby James L. Stokesbury
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury's survey of "the half war" takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the Pusan perimeter crisis, MacArthur's master stroke at Inchon and the intervention by Chinese forces that November. At this point, other popular histories of the war reach the three-quarter mark, ending often with a cursory summary of the comparatively undramatic three-and-a-half years required to bring the war to its ambiguous conclusion on July 27, 1953. Stokesbury renders the latter period as interesting as the operational fireworks of the first six months: the Truman-MacArthur controversy; the political... more...
Paths to Peaceby Elizabeth Stanley
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 60.00Paths to Peace develops a theory about the domestic obstacles to peace in interstate wars?and the role of domestic leadership changes in overcoming these obstacles?and it tests this theory in historical case studies of the Korean War and statistical analysis of interstate wars since 1862. more...
Korean War Order of Battleby Gordon Rottman
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 120.00Provides information on both Western and North Korean, Communist Chinese, and USSR combat units and major commands. more...
The Korean Warby Paul M. Edwards
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 91.00Despite the American tendency to bypass it, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was a watershed in American history. It was in Korea, for the first time, that the United States committed its armed forces to limiting an expansion, by Communist forces, which many believed was designed to take over the world; it was also the first war that a world organization, the United Nations, played a military role. The conflict in Korea was a war that was fought in hardship and danger by the grunt, the man and woman in the field, bringing an end to the myth that possession of an atomic bomb made conventional warfare unnecessary. Training, usually with World II weapons, life on the front, care of the wounded and the dead, and coming home, are just some of the... more...