Allan R. Millett, formerly of Ohio State University and now of the University of New Orleans, is one of America's leading military historians. His works on World War II, Vietnam, and the U.S. Marine Corps are classics, in use across the country as textbooks. Millett himself is a retired Marine officer. He has also had a distinguished career as a scholar and teacher.
Millett plunged into Korean War studies in the 1980s. For fifteen years, he combed archives in the United States, South Korea, and other nations that participated in the conflict. His Marine connections won him access to senior figures in the South Korean military. As a visiting scholar in Korea, using research assistants and language informants, he dug into the historiography of the war on the Korean side. At the same time, he studied documents and memoirs that were being declassified in China and the former Soviet Union...
