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"Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world's superpowers - again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the middle of the Second World War - when Korean independence was fiercely debated between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill - to the present day, as North Korea, with China's aid, stockpiles nuclear weapons while starving its people. At the center of this conflict is an ongoing struggle between North and South Korea for the mantle of Korean legitimacy, a "brother's war," which continues to fuel tensions on the Korean peninsula and the region"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Pt. 1. The war. Liberation and division. End of empire
• Red army in Korea
• General Hodge goes to Korea
• Two Koreas. Failed revolution
• Yŏsu, Sunch'ŏn, and Cheju-do
• Momentous decisions. War drums
• Endgame
• War for the South. Desperate days
• War for the North
• Savage war
• Uncommon coalition. Integrating an army
• Common cause
• Crossing the 38th parallel. Lessons of history
• Pilgrimage to Wake
• "If war is inevitable, let it be waged now"
• First strike
• An entirely new war. "Defeat with dignity and good grace"
• December massacres
• "Revolt of the primitives"
• Wrong Way Ridgway

• Lost chances
• Quest for victory. The general and the statesman
• Spring offensive
• Magnificent Glosters
• Victory denied?
• The stalemate. Truce talks
• Voluntary repatriation
• "Let them march till they die". Death march
• Valley Camp to Camp 5
• Camp 10
• Camp 12
• Return of the defeated
• Propaganda wars. Tunnel war
• American bugs
• Kŏje-do
• Armistice, at last. "I shall go to Korea"
• Death of a dictator
• Divided nation
• Pt. 2. Cold War. Lessons of Korea. Feminized nation
• The "Never again club"
• The Geneva Conference
• Eisenhower's warning
• Deepening the revolution. The tragic demise of Peng Dehuai
• Khrushchev, Korea, and Vietnam
• Korea and Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson: Refighting the Korean War
• Park Chung Hee's crusade
• Pt. 3. Local war. Legitimacy wars. August purge
• Military line
• The blue house raid and the Pueblo incident
• Confessions
• Old allies, new friends. Tensions between allies
• Opening to China
• War for peace. Withdrawal
• Backlash
• To Seoul
• End of an era. Kwangju uprising
• Students and the politics of legitimacy
• Pt. 4. After the Cold War. North Korea and the world. Showdown
• Defueling crisis
• Accord
• Winners and losers. Triumph and forgiveness
• The North Korean famine
• Gulag nation
• Epilogue. China's rise, war's end?

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Author/Creator:

Jager, Sheila Miyoshi , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Brothers at war: the unending conflict in Korea [by Jager, S.M.]

Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953

Korean War, 1950-1953 — Influence

Korea (North) — Foreign relations — Korea (South)

Korea (South) — Foreign relations — Korea (North)

Korean War (1950-1953)

1950-1953

Diplomatic relations

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Korea (South)

Korea (North)

General Notes:

First published as a Norton paperback 2014 -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 605 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

DS918 .J34 2014

ISBNs:

0393348857 (paperback)
9780393348859 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013012760

OCLC Numbers:

881705877