The Korean War in Britain: Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting

By Grace Huxford

The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950-53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of 'germ' warfare to anxiety over Communist use of 'brainwashing' and treachery at home, the Korean War precipitated a series of short-lived panics in 1950s Britain. But by the time of its uneasy ceasefire in 1953, the war was becoming increasingly forgotten. Using Mass Observation surveys, letters, diaries and a wide range of under-explored contemporary material, this book charts the war's changing position in British popular imagination and asks how it became known as the 'Forgotten War'. It explores the war in a variety of viewpoints - conscript, POW, protester and veteran - and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain's Cold War past.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526118955
• ISBN13: 9781526118950
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"