The Korean War: Australia in the Giant's Playground by Cameron Forbes

The Korean War: Australia in the Giant's Playground by Cameron Forbes

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742610221
Author: Cameron Forbes
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Tail right side corners are now protected with book tape. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with a blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

The Korean War has never really ended. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953 after three years of savage warfare, the conflict continues to simmer just below the surface, threatening at any moment to break into full-scale fighting. It makes the Korean peninsula one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world today.

The war itself has long been called the forgotten war. It was fought at the height of the Cold War, with the forces of the United Nations, led by the US, on the one hand against the forces of Communism on the other, led by Mao Tse Tung's China.

Australia was a part of the US-led coalition. Our troops took part in some of the conflict's most savage fighting but coming only five years after the end of World War Two and before the full empowerment of the media that was to take place during the Vietnam War, what happened in Korea during those three long years has been largely overlooked by the public.

Cameron Forbes tells the story of the war and Australia's involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea's unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels – human, military and geopolitical. (back cover)

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