Paul M. Edwards is a leading specialist on the war, having served in it and since become an academic. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Korean War at Graceland University. In addition to teaching, he has written more than a dozen books, including The Korean War: A Documentary History and The Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict.
This second edition—part of Scarecrow’s Historical Dictionaries of
War, Revolution and Civil Unrest series—follows the 2003 original
from Edwards, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the
Korean War at Graceland University and the author of many books and
articles on the Korean War. A short overview of the history of
Korea and the chronology of the war gives way to the entries, which
are brief and factual.
*Library Journal*
This forty-first entry in the Historical Dictionaries of War,
Revolution, and Civil Unrest is a second edition. The first
edition, The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary, was published in
2002 and is now out of print. The author, a Korean War veteran, is
the Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Korean War,
located at Graceland University. Significant people, places,
events, battles, and military units are covered as well as the
political, economic, and social background of the war. The work is
arranged in similar fashion to other historical dictionaries: a
list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, chronology, introduction,
the dictionary entries, appendixes, and a bibliography. Eight maps
include significant battles and events of the war. The chronology
begins in 1882 with the signing of the Korean-American Treaty of
friendship and commerce and ends in September 2009, when North
Korea made a series of conciliatory gestures toward Seoul. The
introduction summarizes the war and discusses its phases as well as
its costs and consequences. The approximately 1,250 entries range
in length from one line to three pages; words in boldface within an
entry indicate separate entries for those topics. Among the six
appendixes are casualty lists and key documents. A 71-page
bibliography is broken down into 18 categories, including
electronic sources. This is an excellent resource for academic
libraries, particularly for those with studies in military history,
as well as public libraries. It is a good update to Historical
Dictionary of the Korean War (Greenwood, 1991), and it complements
more recent reference works.
*Booklist*
No person is more prolific as a reference source on the Korean War
than Paul Edwards….It is a valuable and very handy reference
source.
*American Reference Books Annual*
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