Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History

by William Stueck

Book Overview

Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland and Taiwan--which were to persist for at least two generations. Two of these divisions continue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118477
• ISBN13: 9780691118475
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"