The Korean War : a history /

As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as man...

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Author / Creator: Cumings, Bruce, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Modern Library edition.
Imprint: New York : Modern Library, 2010.
Series:Modern Library chronicles.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Course of the War
  • Chapter 2. The Party of Memory
  • Chapter 3. The Party of Forgetting
  • Chapter 4. Culture of Repression
  • Chapter 5. 38 Degrees of Separation: A Forgotten Occupation
  • Chapter 6. "The Most Disproportionate Result": The Air War
  • Chapter 7. The Flooding of Memory
  • Chapter 8. A "Forgotten War" That Remade the United States and the Cold War
  • Chapter 9. Requiem: History in the Temper of Reconciliation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index