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The Korean War for Busy People: A Fast, Clear Guide to the Forgotten War That Changed Asia and the Cold War

by Noah K. Harrington
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798189339585
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 174
  • Original Price: GBP 11.98
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 209 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Wars & Conflicts / Korean War

It began with a line two American colonels drew in thirty minutes. It killed millions, saved a nation, humbled a superpower, and never officially ended.

The Korean War is the hinge the Cold War turned on, and the one major war most of us can't explain. Ask who started it, why China entered, or how it ended, and the answers run out in a sentence. Most books don't help: the great histories run to 700 pages most readers never finish, the short summaries read like a textbook for high school, and the academic accounts bury the story under a professorial tone. This book was built for the reader who wants the whole war, start to finish, with real depth, and a book that can actually be finished.

The method is a single clear shape: the Four Tides, the four great movements of the front, so you always know where you are. And in every chapter, three chairs stay in the room: Washington's, the communist capitals' (told from their own declassified telegrams), and the Korean ground, where the war landed as occupation, refuge, or grave. No score-settling with other historians. No side's propaganda. The documented record, told straight, with the human element throughout: soldiers, refugees, prisoners, and the leaders who decided.

Inside this book:

  • The thirty-minute decision that divided Korea, and the telegrams that approved the invasion
  • Task Force Smith, the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, and the gamble that reversed the war
  • Why China entered, the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, and the recovery that followed
  • MacArthur versus Truman, the POW deadlock, and how an armistice ends a war without ending it
  • What the war built: the armistice system, the two Koreas, and the world's most fortified border

Written for busy, curious readers: commute-sized chapters, every term explained in plain English at first use, disputes flagged as disputes, and a bibliography that hands you on to the classics. If your knowledge of this war is a blank between World War II and Vietnam, start here.

Finish it, and the forgotten war becomes the one you understand best.

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