Product Description: This is the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception — and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader...read more

Product Description: An early crisis in the Cold War, known as the period of U.S.-Soviet tensions, from 1947 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, occurred in Korea, a country that had been divided at the end of the Second World War. In June 1950, the army of Communist North Korea invaded U...read more

Product Description: Presents an overview of the Korean War, including history, important people and battles, and a timeline of events.

Product Description: The North Koreans’ attack on their Southern neighbors shocked and surprised the World. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United States and United Nations on the other.The author, then a young Gunner officer, found himself in the midst of this very nasty war...read more

Product Description: Korea used to be the ‘forgotten war.’ Now, however, experts widely view it as a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War, while its legacy still scars contemporary East Asian politics. The sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War is a fitting time both to assess the current state of historiography on the conflict and to showcase new research on its different dimensions...read more

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation―be it in the scale, scope, cost, or duration of the conflict. In this book, Spencer D. Bakich investigates a crucial and heretofore ignored factor in determining the nature and direction of limited war: information institutions. Traditional assessments of wartime strategy focus on the relationship between the military and civilians, but Bakich argues that we must take into account the information flow patterns among top policy makers and all national security organizations. By examining the fate of American military and diplomatic strategy in four limited wars, Bakich demonstrates how not only the availability and quality of information, but also the ways in which information is gathered, managed, analyzed, and used, shape a state’s ability to wield power effectively in dynamic and complex international systems. Utilizing a range of primary and secondary source materials, Success and Failure in Limited War makes a timely case for the power of information in war, with crucial implications for international relations theory and statecraft.

Product Description: When in 1950 the United Nations called upon its members to provide aid to South Korea, more than forty nations responded. Some of these sent troops which fought under the United Nations Command, some sent commodities and medical supplies...read more

Product Description: [Read by Frederick Davidson]It was the first war we could not win. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two hundred Korean War veterans, including the Chinese, Hastings follows real soldiers through battle while also brilliantly capturing the Cold War crisis at home...read more

Product Description: Describes the events that began, comprised and ended the Korean War of 1950-1953.

Product Description: Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 11/1/2010Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 9 and Up

Product Description: Believing it could act with impunity in a world exhausted by war, communist North Korea decided to invade and annex Western-allied South Korea in June 1950. President Harry Truman, who feared from the beginning that Korea was "the opening round of World War III," committed U...read more

Details the local origins and the global effects of the Korean War, from the death blow it dealt the Truman administration to the sudden prestige it accorded Maoist China

Product Description: The Korea Knot is a highly readable account of the Korean conflict--the events that led up to it, its international repercussions, and its possible future effects. Beginning with a brief account of the troubled historical past of this small country, Berger sets the stage for Korea's catastrophic hour resulting from World War II--the division of a once united-nation into two separate countries...read more