Ebook {Epub PDF} The Korean War by Bruce Cumings

With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its start as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from to This is a book about the Korean War, written for Americans and by an American about a conflict that is fundamentally Korean, but one construed in the United States to have been a discrete, encapsulated story beginning in June and ending in July , in which Americans are the major actors. They intervene on the side of the. Bruce Cumings is mad as hell that the Korean War is "forgotten" by those nations who fought on the peninsula under the banner of the UN and at the behest of the United States and the Truman Doctrine. He is disgusted by the crimes against humanity committed by those who made the war happen, those who vilified and continue to vilify an enemy to which they gave little choice, those who got in bed with .

ALSO BY BRUCE CUMINGS The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, The Origins of the Korean War, Volume II. Bruce Cumings's research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, twentieth-century international history, US-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy,and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunt. A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored. For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from to that has long been overshadowed by World War II.

The Korean War: A History is a nonfiction book by American historian Bruce Cumings, first published in It is an exhaustive history of the years leading up to the Korean War, the war itself, and the occupation in the aftermath. As the first full-length study to provide a multidimensional examination of how people in these three nation-states have remembered this pivotal mid- twentieth-century conflict, the book marks a notable contribution to the historiography of the Korean War. Author Bruce Cumings, a foremost expert on the war, brings to the table over three decades of critically minded scholarship on the historical origins and consequences of this oft-underappreciated—and still-un-resolved—war. The catastrophic and traumatic experience of the Korean War are analyzed; Cumings rightly emphasizes on the savagery of this conflict(astonishing death and suffering experienced by socially fragile agrarian society)and the rarely discussed destruction of Korean cities after Cumings argues that this war did not only dramatically change destiny of the Korean nation, but also deeply impacted and forged the direction of the foreign policy of the U.S.