A major new history told from all sides, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the armistice in the Korean War.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager is Luce Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, Ohio, and former visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania. She has spent a total of eight years living in Korea with her Korean-American husband, an officer in the U.S. Army.
Insightful, in-depth, and much needed, this book is required
reading for anyone who hopes to understand the situation in
Korea
*Publishers Weekly*
Timely...an important contribution to Cold War scholarship
*Literary Review*
An ambitious, engrossing, and often disturbing history of the
conflict ... a superbly researched work that should be an essential
tool in understanding the current crisis on the peninsula
*Booklist*
Professor Jager has written a fresh, insightful study of the Korean
War that begins in 1945 and follows the war's impact into the
twenty-first century. This book is the best one-volume study of the
war in all its cultural, political, and military aspects.
*Allan R. Millett, author of They Came From the North: The Korean
War, 1950-1951*
This is a magnificent book-deeply researched and written with real
feeling and insight into the complex internal and external
conditions that produced a brutal war and perpetuated Korea's
division to the present day.
*William Stueck, author of The Korean War: An International
History*
Jager . . . skillfully covers international affairs, politics, and
society in a first-rate comprehensive presentation of all the big
issues facing North and South Korea.
*Ezra F Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Emeritus, Harvard University co-editor, Deng and the Transformation
of China.*
The author's judicious use of new material in several languages as
well as her balanced way of presentation make this book an
authoritative and accessible history of the Korean peninsula since
the Second World
*Akira Iriye, Harvard University*
Sheila Miyoshi Jager's Brothers at War is a timely reminder of the
significance of arguably the most important unfinished business of
the Cold War.
*Major General Julian Thompson, KCL*
A stark reminder that... the Korean War is far from over... This
gripping book at last gives the big picture and the full story of a
tragic and terrible conflict.
*Aidan Foster-Carter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology
& Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK*
Written in lucid narrative prose with an eye for the telling detail
and compelling human story
*Carter J. Eckhart, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard
University*
Sheila Miyoshi Jager has managed an astounding feat-an extremely
readable yet rigorously objective and brilliantly researched
history of the Korean War from all sides.
*Rana Mitter, professor of the history and politics of modern
china, Oxford University, and author of Forgotten Ally: China's
World War Two*
Heavyweight history of the best kind: an impressive and
comprehensive account not only of the Korean War but also its many
and far-reaching consequences. Essential reading for anyone who
wants to understand our troubled relationship with North Korea
today.
*Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent: Europe in the aftermath of
World War Two*
A wonderful piece of work. A new history of the Korean War,
informed by the latest archival materials, and written in an
accessible and compelling way.
*Victor Cha*
Best book on Korean war and aftermath I've ever read.
*Senator John McCain*
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