When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century’s bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910–1945. The first in a new two-volume history of the Korean War, Millett’s study offers the most comprehensive account of its causes and early military operations. Millett traces the war’s origins to the post-liberation conflict between two revolutionary movements, the Marxist-Leninists and the Nationalist-capitalists. With the U.S.-Soviet partition of Korea following World War II, each movement, now with foreign patrons, asserted its right to govern the peninsula, leading directly to the guerrilla warfare and terrorism in which more than 30,000 Koreans died. Millett argues that this civil strife, fought mostly in the South, was not so much the cause of the Korean War as its actual beginning. Millett describes two revolutions locked in irreconcilable conflict, offering an even-handed treatment of both Communists and capitalists-nationalists. Neither movement was a model of democracy. He includes Korean, Chinese, and Russian perspectives on this era, provides the most complete account of the formation of the South Korean army, and offers new interpretations of the U.S. occupation of Korea, 1945–1948. Millett’s history redefines the initial phase of the war in Asian terms. His book shows how both internal forces and international pressures converged to create the Korean War, a conflict that still shapes the politics of Asia.
Chronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Placed in context by renowned historian and best-selling author Allan R. Millett, the vignettes of Their War for Korea reflect the war's uniquely Korean and international character while telling the individual's story. Book jacket.
This volume in the Korean War Commemorative Series issued by the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center discusses the 1st Marine Division, X Corps, and the U.S. Eighth Army in the campaign of 1951-1952. It is illustrated with numerous black-&-white photographs and detailed battle maps. Includes profiles of such figures as Major General Gerald C. Thomas; Clarence Jackson Davis: Every Marine; individual soldiers such as Privates First Class Whitt L. Moreland and Jack Davis, Corporal Charles G. Abrell, 2nd Lieut. George H. Ramer, and Sgt. Frederick W. Mausert III; and features such as Close Air Support Controversy, the "Chiggy Bearers," Whirlybirds, and the Year of the Boot.
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