In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United States Far East Command. In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few ...(展开全部)

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical...(展开全部)

《最寒冷的冬天:美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》首度全面揭秘朝鲜战争的真相：硝烟弥漫的20世纪，为什么唯独朝鲜战争让美国人不忍言说却又无法遗忘？这次不再是欲言又止，而是一次全面的检讨。金日成“想用刺刀碰一碰南方的土地”，差点点燃“第三次世界大战”的战火；李承晚军的不堪一击，迫使美国打着联合国的旗号赤裸上阵；斯大林按兵不动背后的战略意图，让毛泽东面临是否派兵入朝的艰难抉择。大卫•哈伯斯塔姆酝酿40多年，耗时10余春秋，完成其生命最后之作——《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》。为创作《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》，他走访了诸多知名图书馆和研究机构，从浩如烟海的资料中探寻历史的隐秘；他访问了100多位散布美国各个角落的朝鲜战争幸存老兵，在无法承受的生命之重中聆听人性的呼唤。朝鲜战争对参战各方来说都是很残酷的。哈伯斯塔姆为我们描绘和剖析了二战后这场“为...(展开全部)

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophi...(展开全部)

<DIV>Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and...(展开全部)

The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dyna...(展开全部)

The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War...(展开全部)

Exploring the reasons why Mao Tse-tung decided to assist North Korea in fighting a coalition of Western powers, this study argues that China's entry into the Korean War was brought about by its fears of Cold War alliances and its move to develop Chinese communism abroad.

In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past two decades has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound socio-political changes underway in Korea. Since 1980, the country has transformed from an insular, authoritarian culture into a democratic and cosmopolitan society. The transition ...(展开全部)