The War for Korea 1945-50 : A House Burning / Allan R. Millett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millett, Allan Reed.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern War Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean War, 1950-1953--Causes.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

World politics--1945-1955.

World politics.

Communism--Korea--History--20th century.

Communism.

Korea--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1948.

Korea.

Korea--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

The years of division, 1919-1945

Defeat and division: Korea on the brink, 1945-1946

Putting Korea together again: the rise and fall of the US-USSR Joint Commission, 1946-1947

The Moscow agreement is abandoned, 1947

The United Nations enters the struggle, 1947-1948

The Republic of Korea enters the world and almost dies stillborn, 1948-1949

"We are fighting for our lives!" 1949-1950

The once and future invasion, 1949-1950

Epilogue and prologue, June 1950.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-324) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700621859

0700621857

OCLC:

607604731