The Korean War
by Bruce Cumings · first published 2010
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As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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…Allies'. Rana Mintner's Forgotten Ally was on the new shelf a few months ago at the public library: http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Ally-China%C2%92s-World-1937... More recently I read Bruce Cummings The Korean War: A History. Now I no longer write North Korea's actions off as crazy. That's the country whose founders fought Japanese imperialism before and throughout the war. The American military maintained Japan's…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite history books?” ↗If you're interested in the topic, Bruce Cumings's The Korean War is a good read. http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-History-Chronicles/ I'm not a professional historian, and just beginning to learn about relations between Korea, Japan and China over the last 150…
on “North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots” ↗Thanks for the recommendation. Your link is busted, here's a working one for anyone else who happens across this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-History-Chronicles/dp/0... It looks like it's the /dp/081297896X part that's important, and the title in the URL can actually be deleted. Anyway, I grabbed the Kindle sample and will see how it looks!
on “North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots” ↗Perhaps this? “What hardly any Americans know or remember,” University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings writes in his book “The Korean War: A History,” “is that we carpet-bombed the north for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.” How many Americans know that “over a period of three years or so,” to quote Air Force…
on “Why North Korea wants nuclear weapons” ↗