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The Korean War : a history / Bruce Cumings.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Library chroniclesPublication details: New York : Modern Library, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0679643575 (acidfree paper)
  • 9780679643579 (acid-free paper)
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Contents:
The course of the war -- The party of memory -- The party of forgetting -- Culture of repression -- 38 degrees of separation : a forgotten occupation -- "The most disproportionate result" : the air war -- The flooding of memory -- A "forgotten war" that remade the United States -- Requiem : history in the temper of reconciliation.
Summary: 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 many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Korean War, More than any other war in modern times, is surrounded by residues and slippages of memory. The Great War's place is indelible, its annihilating violence a permanent reminder of war's carnage. World War II was the good war, an outright victory to be celebrated. Vietnam tore the United States apart. With Korea there is less a presence than an absence; thus the default reflexive American name: "the forgotten war." For years I rejected the "forgotten war" rubric; the unknown war seemed much better. But for Americans Korea is both: a forgotten war and a never-known war. For Americans Korea is just one among several wars best forgotten, just another transient episode among a myriad of interventions in Third World countries that do not bear close examination, but have unsettling ways of coming back to haunt us. Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-275) and index.

The course of the war -- The party of memory -- The party of forgetting -- Culture of repression -- 38 degrees of separation : a forgotten occupation -- "The most disproportionate result" : the air war -- The flooding of memory -- A "forgotten war" that remade the United States -- Requiem : history in the temper of reconciliation.

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 many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.

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