The unfinished war : Korea / / Bong Lee.
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 284 p. :; maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists
- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II
- The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance
- Americans in South Korea
- North Koreans discover communism
- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan
- Prelude to a hot war
- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington
- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around
- An ugly war
- The first hundred days
- Mao's thought in Beijing
- The Inchon landing and its aftermath
- Chinese traps
- A brand new ball game
- Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians
- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in
- The way we survived the war
- A talking war
- The tortuous path to armistice agreement
- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls
- North Korea now
- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.