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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...
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...
Life on the Edge of the DMZ
BRILL 2008; US$ 105.00The author?s celebrated quest to capture today?s built and natural environment and way of life along the DMZ, separating the two Koreas, is both a stunning literary and photographic achievement. Supported by 150 colour photographs, the book by one of Korea?s renowned photographers takes the reader from Chulwon in the east to Kosung in the west. more...
Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and cultural spheres, the Northeast Asian region still experience wounds from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Overcoming these... more...
Korea in the Cross Currents
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 105.00The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone. Jutting off the extreme northeast edge of the Eurasian landmass, and with a combined population of nearly seventy million people, North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan and Russia.... more...
The Partition of Korea after World War II
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 34.00Drawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division's origins and permanency. more...
The Making of Modern Korea
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 45.95This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present day. The text is unique in placing emphasis on Korea?s regional and geographical context, through which Buzo analyzes the influence of bigger and more powerful states on the peninsula of Korea. ... more...
Contemporary North Korea
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 160.00This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in North Korea since late 2005, continuing the overview of developments which were covered in the author?s North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (Routledge 2006). Key topics covered include: the succession; family visits; human rights; nuclear... more...
Conflict in Asia
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 97.00This is the first volume using a common approach to examine post-Cold War changes in these three volatile dyads. more...
A Guide to Films on the Korean War
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 98.95Written by a knowledgeable film critic and Korean War scholar, this is the only guide exclusively devoted to the study of Hollywood and television films based on the Korean War, 1950-1953. It opens with eight short essays, discussing the appeal of the war film genre, government and filmmaker cooperation, the isolation of Korean War films from other... more...









