CONTENTS
Abbreviations Used in Text
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE WAR
1. Liberation and Division
End of Empire
Red Army in Korea
General Hodge Goes to Korea
2. Two Koreas
Failed Revolution
Yŏsu, Sunch’ŏn, and Cheju-do
3. Momentous Decisions
War Drums
Endgame
4. War for the South
Desperate Days
War for the North
Savage War
5. Uncommon Coalition
Integrating an Army
Common Cause
6. Crossing the 38th Parallel
Lessons of History
Pilgrimage to Wake
“If War Is Inevitable, Let It Be Waged Now”
First Strike
7. An Entirely New War
“Defeat with Dignity and Good Grace”
December Massacres
“Revolt of the Primitives”
Wrong Way Ridgway
Lost Chances
8. Quest for Victory
The General and the Statesman
Spring Offensive
Magnificent Glosters
Victory Denied?
9. The Stalemate
Truce Talks
Voluntary Repatriation
10. “Let Them March Till They Die”
Death March
Valley Camp to Camp 5
Camp 10
Camp 12
Return of the Defeated
11. Propaganda Wars
Tunnel War
American Bugs
Kŏje-do
12. Armistice, at Last
“I Shall Go to Korea”
Death of a Dictator
Divided Nation
PART II: COLD WAR
13. Lessons of Korea
Feminized Nation
The “Never Again Club”
The Geneva Conference
Eisenhower’s Warning
14. Deepening the Revolution
The Tragic Demise of Peng Dehuai
Khrushchev, Korea, and Vietnam
15. Korea and Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson: Refighting the Korean War
Park Chung Hee’s Crusade
PART III: LOCAL WAR
16. Legitimacy Wars
August Purge
Military Line
The Blue House Raid and the Pueblo Incident
Confessions
17. Old Allies, New Friends
Tensions between Allies
Opening to China
18. War for Peace
Withdrawal
Backlash
To Seoul
19. End of an Era
Kwangju Uprising
Students and the Politics of Legitimacy
PART IV: AFTER THE COLD WAR
20. North Korea and the World
Showdown
Defueling Crisis
Accord
21. Winners and Losers
Triumph and Forgiveness
The North Korean Famine
Gulag Nation
EPILOGUE: China’s Rise, War’s End?
Appendix
Notes
Index