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The War for Korea, 1950-1951 - They Came from the North (Paperback)
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The War for Korea, 1950-1951 - They Came from the North (Paperback)
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Harry S. Truman Book Award In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House
Burning, one of our most distinguished military historians argued
that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the
twentieth century was first and foremost a war between Koreans that
began in 1948. In the second volume of a monumental trilogy, Allan
R. Millett now shifts his focus to the twelve-month period from
North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the
end of June 1951-the most active phase of the internationalized
"Korean War." Moving deftly between the battlefield and the halls
of power, Millett weaves together military operations and tactics
without losing sight of Cold War geopolitics, strategy, and
civil-military relations. Filled with new insights on the conflict,
his book is the first to give combined arms its due, looking at the
contributions and challenges of integrating naval and air power
with the ground forces of United Nations Command and showing the
importance of Korean support services. He also provides the most
complete, and sympathetic, account of the role of South Korea's
armed forces, drawing heavily on ROK and Korea Military Advisory
Group sources. Millett integrates non-American perspectives into
the narrative-especially those of Mao Zedong, Chinese military
commander Peng Dehuai, Josef Stalin, Kim Il-sung, and Syngman Rhee.
And he portrays Walton Walker and Matthew Ridgway as the heroes of
Korea, both of whom had a more profound understanding of the
situation than Douglas MacArthur, whose greatest flaw was not his
politics but his strategic and operational incompetence. Researched
in South Korean, Chinese, and Soviet as well as American and UN
sources, Millett has exploited previously ignored or neglected oral
history collections-including interviews with American and South
Korean officers-and has made extensive use of reports based on
interrogations of North Korean and Chinese POWs. The end result is
masterful work that provides both a gripping narrative and a
greater understanding of this key conflict in international and
American history.
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