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A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored

About the Author

Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, and specializes in modern Korean history and East Asian-American relations.

Reviews

“A powerful revisionist history . . . a sobering corrective.”—The New York Times

“Worth reading . . . This work raises the question of what Korea can tell us about the outlook for Iraq and Afghanistan.”—Financial Times

“Well-sourced [and] elegantly presented.”—The Wall Street Journal

"A powerful revisionist history . . . a sobering corrective."-The New York Times

"Worth reading . . . This work raises the question of what Korea can tell us about the outlook for Iraq and Afghanistan."-Financial Times

"Well-sourced [and] elegantly presented."-The Wall Street Journal