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Brothers at war : the unending conflict in Korea /

More than sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War is still not over--yet it has become a forgotten episode in American history. Now, Sheila Miyoshi Jager combines international events with previously unknown personal accounts to create a compr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Influence.
Korea (North) > Foreign relations > Korea (South)
Korea (South) > Foreign relations > Korea (North)
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The war. Liberation and division
  • Two Koreas
  • Momentous decisions
  • War for the South
  • Uncommon coalition
  • Crossing the 38th parallel
  • An entirely new war
  • Quest for victory
  • The stalemate
  • "Let them march till they die"
  • Propaganda wars
  • Armistice, at last
  • Pt. 2. Cold War. Lessons of Korea
  • Deepening the revolution
  • Korea and Vietnam
  • Pt. 3. Local war. Legitimacy wars
  • Old allies, new friends
  • War for peace
  • End of an era
  • Pt. 4. After the Cold War. North Korea and the world
  • Winners and losers
  • Epilogue. China's rise, war's end?