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Click here to learn more! 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
1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a
generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events.
With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here
and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean
documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually
fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long
before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury
over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then
shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II
occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody
insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States
officially entering the action on the si