The Korean War: Limits of American Power

By Karl E. Valois

Book Overview

The words of President Truman, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower, and others, reporter's stories, and letters from soldiers shed light on the war, which began as a civil war between Korean nationalists and escalated into a struggle between the U.S. and Communist China, throwing America into the first major showdown of the Cold War.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878668811
• ISBN13: 9781878668813
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: History Compass, LLC
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.3"