Table of Contents

Foreword by Randall M. Miller Preface Chronology of Events The Korean Conflict Explained Historical Overview The Western Alliance, Great Britain, and the Korean Conflict The Soviet Union, China, and the Korean Conflict: New Sources, New Insights From Rollback to Rollback: The Chinese Communist Intervention Prisoners of War Issue Meaning and Implications of the Korean Conflict Biographies: The Personalities Behind the Korean Conflict Primary Documents of the Korean Conflict Annotated Bibliography Index

About the Author

BURTON I. KAUFMAN is Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of two previous Greenwood Press books, Efficiency and Expansion (1974) and Oil Cartel Case (1978) . Case (1978).

Reviews

?An accurate, measured appraisal of a costly and tragic conflict that shaped American thinking about the cold War until the fall of the Soviet Union...Kaufman provides a straightforward historical overview of the conflict showing how the U.S. became embroiled in this nowin war.?-School Library Journal

?This work should prove to be a useful tool for high school students, especially students taking advanced high school American and Asian history courses, and beginning undergraduates. School, public, and academic libraries should purchase this work.?-American Reference Books Annual

"This work should prove to be a useful tool for high school students, especially students taking advanced high school American and Asian history courses, and beginning undergraduates. School, public, and academic libraries should purchase this work."-American Reference Books Annual

"An accurate, measured appraisal of a costly and tragic conflict that shaped American thinking about the cold War until the fall of the Soviet Union...Kaufman provides a straightforward historical overview of the conflict showing how the U.S. became embroiled in this nowin war."-School Library Journal