The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning (Modern War Studies) - Softcover

Millett, Allan R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700621091 ISBN 13: 9780700621095

Verlag: University Press of Kansas, 2015

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"A superb, path-breaking, and highly revealing narrative of the Cold War's first major 'hot war.'"--Chen Jian, author of China's Road to the Korean War"Millett is one of the very best military historians writing today and his book far surpasses any other in describing and analyzing the military dimensions of events leading up to North Korea's attack on South Korea in June 1950."--William Stueck, author of The Korean War in World History "Authoritative and compelling. . . . A must read for policy makers and all informed citizens interested in the fate of the Korean peninsula."--James T. Laney, former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea and coauthor of U.S. Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Next Steps "Recommended for all historians of the Cold War or of Korea."--Army History"A meticulously researched narrative ... the author's writing is a model of clarity . . . first-rate scholarship."--Parameters "Millett blends battlefield operations and tactics with Cold War geopolitics, strategy, and civil-military relations, furnishing an extensive treatment of the contributions and challenges of integrating naval and air power with ground troops of the United Nations command and demonstrating the important role of Korean support services. His discussion of the performance of the South Korean forces is excellent."--China Review International "This book and the larger trilogy will be an absolutely indispensable resource for scholars of the Korean War and the Cold War in general. Millet's annotated bibliography of the secondary literature and archival sources is comprehensive in scope, spanning the earliest primary sources to the most recent revelations and revisions. His exquisite documentation of declassified archival sources is particularly valuable for students and scholars alike. . . . Millet's strengths are his remarkable talent for personalizing the war, in particular illustrating intimate details of various high and low-profile Americans involved, as well as his keen ability to see more in the archival documents than the authors of the documents themselves."--Journal of Asian Studies "Distinguished historian Allen Millett . . . combines military operations with high-level command and policy to analyze a period in the war when so much was at stake. . . . When Millett writes, the result is always worth reading, and this is no exception."--Proceedings (of the U.S. Naval Institute) "This is one of those books that invite words such as magisterial, authoritative, and definitive. Millett provides a record of events in clear and measured prose, with full regard for context and personalities; the interplay between the local and the international as well as the military and diplomatic; and the details of battle and the broad sweep of the campaign."--Foreign Affairs "Millett easily shifts between the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of warfare and does not eschew high politics and diplomacy. . . . Millett superbly integrates national points of view into his narrative, not concentrating on the action of a single country at the expense of the others. As befits a careful scholar, his notes offer insights about the sources as he explains a subject's historiography and how he differentiates between views. In addition, Millett includes a lengthy bibliographic essay in which he discusses his research and how it fits into Korean War historiography. His judgments are as judicious as his style is felicitous. This volume, along with its companion, will repay the time it takes to read. When completed, the triology will be this generation's standard work on the war."--Military Review "For those who have anticipated this book for five years, let me cut to the chase: The wait was worth it: read this book! . . . An unparalleled inquiry into the reasons things happened the way they did during the Korean War's first year."--Naval History "Exhaustive documentation, plentiful maps and photographs, and a scholarly bibliographic essay will make this an indispensable purchase at four-year and graduate school libraries. Essential."--Choice

Reseña del editor:

When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910-1945. The first in a new two-volume history of the Korean War, Millett's study offers the most comprehensive account of its causes and early military operations. Millett traces the war's origins to the post-liberation conflict between two revolutionary movements, the Marxist-Leninists and the Nationalist-capitalists. With the U.S.-Soviet partition of Korea following World War II, each movement, now with foreign patrons, asserted its right to govern the peninsula, leading directly to the guerrilla warfare and terrorism in which more than 30,000 Koreans died. Millett argues that this civil strife, fought mostly in the South, was not so much the cause of the Korean War as its actual beginning. Millett describes two revolutions locked in irreconcilable conflict, offering an even-handed treatment of both Communists and capitalists-nationalists. Neither movement was a model of democracy. He includes Korean, Chinese, and Russian perspectives on this era, provides the most complete account of the formation of the South Korean army, and offers new interpretations of the U.S. occupation of Korea, 1945-1948. Millett's history redefines the initial phase of the war in Asian terms. His book shows how both internal forces and international pressures converged to create the Korean War, a conflict that still shapes the politics of Asia.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0700621091
• ISBN 13: 9780700621095
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384