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Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953

Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953 Paperback - 1996

by Leckie, Robert

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  • Title Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Author Leckie, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 1996-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR005092729
  • ISBN 9780306807169 / 0306807165
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.49 x 1.23 in (21.64 x 13.94 x 3.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96015600
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.904

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First line

KOREA, the place where the world's peace was broken not five years after the end of World War II, is one of those un little lands fated to be battlegrounds.

From the rear cover

In June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel (the arbitrary, militarily indefensible line of latitude separating the Communist North from the independent Republic of Korea) to unite the country by force. Three bloody, bitter years of fighting ensued during which the see-sawing fortunes of this frustrating war thwarted North Korea's ambitions while treating the ill-equipped, overconfident U.N. peacekeeping forces, mostly Americans, no less harshly. Conflict examines the war in all its military, political, and human dimensions: the battles at Pusan Perimeter, at Inchon, at Chosin Reservoir, at Heartbreak Ridge; significant figures like Syngman Rhee, Kim Il Sung, Ridgway, MacArthur, and Truman; controversies like the U.N.'s role, MacArthur's dismissal, the difficulties of P.O.W. exchanges, and charges of brainwashing and germ warfare; as well as penetrating analyses of the performance of the American soldier, and the war's effect on the U.S. military and our national psyche. As such, Conflict stands as an unsurpassed, vivid contribution to history.

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About the author

Robert Leckie's many books include Conflict: The History of the Korean War, 1950-1953, Okinawa, George Washington's War, From Sea to Shining Sea, None Died in Vain and Delivered from Evil. He lives in Andover, New Jersey.