The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

By Cumings, Bruce
Modern Library, $24.00, 288 pages
Many students of history gloss over the Korean War.  Yet this war was important, it was the first of a new type of war.  A guerrilla war, one in which we did not know who the enemy was.  Author Bruce Cumings gives the Korean War life and breath that it richly deserves.  He makes the argument that the Korean War was a civil war between two factions, those that collaborated with the Japanese Imperialists (South), and tho...