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The Korean War : a history

As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians
Print Book, English, 2010
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Modern Library, New York, 2010
Nonfiction
xix, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
9780679643579, 9780679603788, 9780812978964, 0679643575, 0679603786, 081297896X
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The course of the war
The party of memory
The party of forgetting
Culture of repression
38 degrees of separation : a forgotten occupation
"The most disproportionate result" : the air war
The flooding of memory
A "forgotten war" that remade the United States
Requiem : history in the temper of reconciliation