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The Korean War: A History (2010)

by Bruce Cumings(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0679643575 (ISBN13: 9780679643579)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Modern Library

series

Modern Library Chronicles

review 1: This book was informative about mostly ghastly and terrible war crimes that were committed during the Korean war. It did not go in depth about the actual battles or the White House strategy of the war as I was hoping. It was clearly written by a hard core liberal with a lot of anger built up for his own country. The book demonized the South Koreans and the Americans in the war while trying to make Kim Il Sung look not so bad. The most damning part of the book was when he stated and I'm paraphrasing. Yes the North Koreans killed several American POW's but it was a merciful bullet behind the ear. He then went on to make the crimes committed by the North Koreans pale in comparison to the evil south Koreans and explain why the communists hate us so much. It was well wri... moretten but it did not focus on the war so much and if I were in the Kremlin I would use this book as propaganda for young students studying the west. Too liberal, too anti American, too many exceptions for communist crimes.
review 2: A schizophrenic account of the peri feral issues surrounding the Korean War. The publisher misnamed this book; Cumings only devotes a few dozen pages to the conflict itself. Still, peripheral issues and context are certainly helpful to understand the big picture. Those who read history as black and white, good guys vs. Bad guys, will not like this book.Shame on the editors: this book and the reader deserves tighter editing and less repetition. less

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