Jump to:Korea: War Without End [Hardback]by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Shipping from 04/07/2013 - can be pre-ordered Description of Korea: War Without EndThis is a major new history told from all sides, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. In this blockbusting debut, distinguished American professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager interweaves international events and previously unknown personal accounts to give a brilliant new history of the war, its aftermath and its global impact told from American, Korean, Soviet and Chinese sides. This is the first account to examine not only the military, but the social and political aspects of the war across the whole region - and it takes the story up to the present day: for the current wrangles are part of a conflict that has been ongoing for more than seventy years. Serious history with a strong narrative, akin to Max Hastings or Antony Beevor, "Korea: War Without End" is the thrilling and highly original debut of a historian who will clearly go very far indeed. 'I entered the prison and walked around and discovered the corpses; they were black and covered with flies. I couldn't believe how cruelly these civilians were killed. I thought that it didn't matter whether this was done by the Communists or by our own troops - it represented the sorrow of a weak people, the tragedy of a civil war' - Yi Chun-yong, a South Korean prison guard recalls a massacre scene at Taejon prison in 1950.Title Information
Write a review of this book Customer Reviews from AmazonAbout Sheila Miyoshi JagerSheila Miyoshi Jager is Luce Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, Ohio, and former visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania. She has spent a total of eight years living in Korea with her Korean-American husband, an officer in the U.S. Army, who has served in both South Korea and Seoul. |
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