Korea The Unknown War
Korea The Unknown War by Jon Halliday, published by Penguin in 1990, offers a detailed examination of the Korean War, a significant event during the early Cold War era. This first paperback edition spans 224 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into the complexities of the conflict, highlighting its impact as a civil war influenced by external forces, and the profound consequences it had on the Korean Peninsula, including the loss of lives and the division of the country.
Readers will find a comprehensive account that combines historical analysis with a visual narrative, featuring hundreds of photographs that depict daily life in Korea amidst the war’s devastation. Halliday and co-author Bruce Cumings engage with a variety of sources, including journalists and participants, to provide an unpartisan perspective on the conflict. The book addresses the heavy toll of the war, the extensive bombing campaigns, and the ongoing legacy of bitterness and controversy that followed. Through this exploration, the authors aim to illuminate the realities of a war often shrouded in misunderstanding and propaganda.
Official synopsis Publisher
“The ‘Unknown War’ in Korea was very important indeed: as a crucial ‘hot’ episode in the early Cold War, as a dress rehearsal for Bietnam and as a savage civil war complicated by outside intervention. It left a divided country (35,000 American soldiers and over 3 million Koreans dead), as well as hollow claims of victory from both sides and a legacy of bitterness and controversy. John Halliday and Bruce Cumings have assembled hundreds of photographs to provide a grim picture of everyday life in Korea under ‘the heaviest and most sustained bombing ever known’. THey have also talked to a wide range of journalists, observers and participants in many countries, lifted the lid of the ‘opaque Never-never-land’ of North Korea and cut through the dense propaganda on both sides. The result is a full and unpartisan account of an extraordinary conflict”–Back cover
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