Format:
1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813121191
,
0813109671
,
0813157218
,
9780813157214
Content:
The Korean War has been termed ""The Forgotten War"" or the ""Unknown War."" It is a conflict which never assumed the mythic character of the American Civil War or World War II. However, this book asserts, it would be impossible to understand the Cold War and indeed post 1945 global history without knowledge of the Korean War. Providing a history of the Korean peninsula before the war and including a detailed analysis of the fighting itself, The Korean War goes beyond the battlefield to deal with the war in the air, ground attack, and air evacuation. The study also evaluates the contributions
Content:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Maps; 1 Introduction; 2 History and background; History of Korea to 1950; 3 Invasion and retreat; 4 The Pusan Perimeter; 5 Inchon landings and pursuit northward; 6 The UNC drive north; 7 China's intervention and the second great UN retreat; 8 Chinese offensives and stabilization of the battlelines; 9 The United Nations' first war; 10 The air and naval war; The aircraft; Air war in Korea; First jet-to-jet combat; Naval air war; Naval surface warfare; 11 Behind the lines; Civil affairs and military government
Content:
Ideology and psychological warfareThe POW camps; Guerrilla and counter-guerrilla; Medical treatment; 12 Home fronts; The Koreas and China; The United States; Great Britain; 13 Fighting and negotiating; Military racial integration in wartime; Stalemate; 14 Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Chronology; Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sandler, Stanley, 1937- Korean War Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999
Language:
English
