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CONTENTS Foreword Prologue: Task Force Smith 1. Origins of a Tragedy 2. Invasion 3. The West's Riposite Washington Tokyo Seoul 4. Walker's War Retreat to the Naktong Dressing Ranks The Pusan Perimeter 5. Inchon 6. To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel 7. The Coming of the Chinese 8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir 9. The Winter of Crisis The Big Bugout Washington and Tokyo The Arrival of Ridgway 10. Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur 11. The Struggle on the Imjin 12. The Stony Road Toward Stalemate Panmunjom The Cause 13. The Intelligence War 14. The Battle in the Air 15. The War on the Hills 16. The Prisoners 17. The Pursuit of Peace Koje-do "I Shall Go to Korea" The Last Act 18. Hindsight Chronology Notes and References Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources Appendix Acknowledgments Index List of Maps Korea The Invasion of South Korea From Inchon to Seoul The Chinese Intervention Retreat from the Chosin Reservoir The Battle of the Imjin River

391 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Best general history of this conflict. Draws some chilling parallels with Vietnam. In both wars, the President sent troops without a declaration of war, supported unpopular regimes, U.S. strategy relied too much on aerial bombing, and the American public became disillusioned.--Cf. Choice, July/August 1988

The Korean War