Korean War

An essential piece of the increasing scholarship on and about the Korean War.

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Begins with a brief history of the Korean War, a comparison of war statistics, and a chronology. The bibliography contains 2,205 briefly annotated entries arranged in sections on the official view of the war, causes and conflicts, histories from the points of view of the different branches of the military involved, military operations, special topics ranging from women in the military to propaganda and psychological warfare, responses to the war, and analyses. Indexed by subject and author. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

PAUL M. EDWARDS is Professor Emeritus and the Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Korean War on Graceland University's Independence, Missouri, campus. Among his publications are The Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict (2006); A to Z of the Korean War (2005); The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary (2003); The Korean War: A Documentary History (1999); A Guide to Films of the Korean War (1997); and The Inchon Landing, Korea (1994). Dr. Edwards is a veteran of the Korean War.