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<p>A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored<br>&#160;<br>For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts contemporary events. And in a very real way, although its true roots and repercussions continue to be either misunderstood, forgotten, or willfully ignored, it is the war that helped form modern America&rsquo;s relationship to the world.<p>With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its start as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan&rsquo;s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America&rsquo;s post&ndash;World War II occupation of Korea, the untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and the powerful militaries organized an

Who reads The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)?

Author

Bruce Cummings

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812978964

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (470 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14