
Korean War
Maurice Isserman(Author)
Checkmark Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2010
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-8160-8186-8 (ISBN)
Description
Believing it could act with impunity in a world exhausted by war, communist North Korea decided to invade and annex Western-allied South Korea in June 1950. President Harry Truman, who feared from the beginning that Korea was ""the opening round of World War III,"" committed U.S. troops to repulse the invaders. America's first ""limited"" war - and the first armed conflict of the cold war era - had begun. Three years of brutal fighting followed, leading to the deaths of more than half a million North Korean and Chinese soldiers, and more than 50,000 Americans. Korean War, Revised Edition recalls this momentous but largely forgotten event from recent American history through riveting full-color and black-and-white images, informative sidebars, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, and an index. A new chapter to this edition focuses on the new military tactics and innovations used during this armed conflict.
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Series
Edition
Revised Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Facts On File Inc
Target group
Interest Age: From 12 to 17 years
Illustrations
Full-colour and black and white photographs and illustrations, full-colour maps
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8160-8186-8 (9780816081868)
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Persons
Maurice Isserman holds both a Ph.D. and a master's degree from the University of Rochester. He is a professor of history at Hamilton College, specializing in 20th-century U.S. history and the history of exploration. Isserman was a Fulbright distinguished lecturer at Moscow State University in 1997 and has received numerous other grants, awards, and fellowships. He has written dozens of articles, reviews, reference book entries, and book chapters. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Facts On File's Journey to Freedom: The African-American Great Migration and two other titles in Chelsea House's America at War set.