The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Development of Modern South Korea
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach this book highlights the most characteristic features of South Korean modernity in relation to its historical... more...
A Short History of the Korean War
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99As 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.... more...
A Concise History of Modern Korea
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 28.99This comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century. Placing this formerly insular society in a global context, Michael J. Seth describes how this ancient, culturally and ethnically homogeneous society... more...
The History of Korea
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 66.00The Koreas are two of the few countries in the East Asian world to successfully maintain political and cultural independence from China. Originated by the Han-Ye-Maek people who had migrated from North China to Manchuria and the Korean peninsula since 2000 BCE, three Korean dynastiesGreat Silla, Koryo, and Chosonkept peace and prosperity... more...
A Morning in June
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental advantages that could be translated into... more...
The Korean War
Pan Macmillan Australia 2010; US$ 24.67The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world's most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms,... more...
Give Me Tomorrow
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 16.00An epic story of a legendary Marine company?s valor and sacrifice in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian more...
A History of Korea
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 48.99In this comprehensive yet compact book, Michael J. Seth surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. He explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and its still little-known cultural heritage from their inception to the two Korean states of today. Telling the remarkable story of the origins and evolution of... more...
Truman, MacArthur and the Korean War
Enigma Books 2011; US$ 19.00The best concise military history of the first year of the Korean War and the Truman-MacArthur crisis. more...
Peace on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2001; US$ 18.50This book contains the text of the Singapore Lecture delivered by Kim Dae-jung on 27 November 2000.... more...









