This is the second installment of Allan R. Millet's three-volume magnum opus on the Korean War. The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came from the North is an intensely detailed and rich chronicle of the most violent phase of the war. Millett masterfully weaves together a compelling narrative that draws on a lifetime of exhaustive mining of English-language sources, including declassified archival materials and secondary literature on the subject. This book and the larger trilogy will be an absolutely indispensible resource for scholars of the Korean War and the Cold War in general. Millet's annotated bibliography of the secondary literature and archival sources is comprehensive in scope, spanning the earliest primary sources to the most recent revelations and revisions. His exquisite documentation of declassified archival sources is particularly valuable for students and scholars alike. However, Millett does not present a new perspective or analysis of the war. Instead, he...
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May 01 2011
The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came from the North
The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came from the North
. By Allan R. Millett. Lawrence
: University Press of Kansas
, 2010
. 644 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Tae Yang Kwak
Tae Yang Kwak
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 598–600.
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Tae Yang Kwak; The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came from the North. Journal of Asian Studies 1 May 2011; 70 (2): 598–600. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811000611
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