Abstract
This article provides a summary of current literature addressing the Korean conflict, from World War II until July 1953. It describes not only the content of major books and articles, but also key areas of interpretive disagreement. Topics cover both political and military affairs.
Notes
Dr. James I. Matray is professor of history at California State University, Chico, where he served as department chair from 2002 to 2008. He has written or edited six books, authoring as well more than forty journal articles and book chapters on issues related to US relations with Korea since World War II. He currently is researching the Battles of Pork Chop Hill pursuant to publication by Indiana University Press of a book on the topic.
[1] CitationDean G. Acheson testimony, US Congress, Senate, Joint Committee on Armed Services and Foreign Relations, Military Situation in the Far East, Hearings to Conduct an Inquiry into the Military Situation in the Far East and the Facts Surrounding the Relief of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur from His Assignment in That Area, 81st Cong., 1st Sess., 1951, pp. 1715, 1936.
[7] CitationMillett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950; idem, The War for Korea, 1950–1951.
[8] CitationCasey, Selling the Korean War; CitationPierpaoli, Truman and Korea; CitationWiltz, ‘The Korean War and American Society’. There are a handful of works that describe assorted aspects of the US domestic side of the Korean War. CitationKarsten, ‘The American Democratic Citizen Soldier: Triumph or Disaster?; CitationMueller, ‘Trends in Popular Support for the Wars in Korea and Vietnam’; CitationHamby, ‘Public Opinion: Korea and Vietnam’; CitationToner, ‘American Society and the American Way of War’; CitationFlynn, ‘The Draft and College Deferments During the Korean War’; CitationForslund, ‘…Worth a Thousand Words: Editorial Images of the Korean War’; CitationYoung, ‘The Korean War’.
[11] CitationAppleman, South of the Naktong, North to the Yalu; CitationSchnabel, Policy and Direction; Hermes, Citation
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
. In a long delayed study, Billy C. Mossman filled the remaining gap in the US Army's official history, describing the US retreat into South Korea before a counteroffensive pushed the enemy back into North Korea and stabilised the battle front in July 1951. CitationMossman, Ebb and Flow: November 1950–July 1951.
[14] CitationCumings, The Origins of the Korean War, Vol. 1. Bruce Cumings earlier summarised his argument in ‘American Policy and Korean Liberation’.
[16] Wilz, ‘Encountering Korea’.
[18] ‘Conference of President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and Prime Minister Churchill in North Africa’.
[21] Matray, The Reluctant Crusade, 52–130.
[25] CitationMillett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950; Brazinsky, Nation Building in South Korea.
[26] CitationCho, Korea in World Politics, 1940–1950; CitationChoi, ‘Trusteeship Debate and the Korean Cold War’; and CitationJeon, ‘U.S. Korean Policy and the Moderates During the U.S. Military Government Era’.
[29] CitationPark, ‘The American Military Government and the Framework for Democracy in South Korea’.
[34] Berger, The Korean Knot; Cho, Korea and World Politics; Dobbs, The Unwanted Symbol.
[36] CitationMatray, ‘Dean Acheson's National Press Club Speech Reexamined’.
[37] Kaufman, The Korean Conflict.
[38] Harry S. Truman statement, 27 June 1950, US Department of State Bulletin, 23, no. 574 (3 July 1950): 5.
[52] Kim and Matray, Korea and the Cold War.
[53] CitationTruman, Memoirs, Vol. II; Acheson, Present at the Creation.
[54] Matray, The Reluctant Crusade, 242–50.
[69] CitationXia, ‘The Study of Cold War International History in China’. See also, CitationLi, Millett, and Bin, Mao's Generals Remember Korea.
[72] Goncharov, Lewis, and Xue, Uncertain Partners; Mansourov, ‘Enigmas of D-Day’; Chen, China's Road to the Korean War; Zhang, Mao's Military Romanticism; Sheng, Battling Western Imperialism.
[80] Foot, A Substitute for Victory.
[81] Foot, A Substitute for Victory; CitationBoose, ‘The Korean War Truce Talks’; CitationXia, Negotiating with the Enemy.
[83] Foot, A Substitute for Victory; CitationBailey, The Korean Armistice.
[86] Foot, A Substitute for Victory; CitationBernstein, ‘The Struggle over the Korean Armistice’.
[88] CitationFoot, A Substitute for Victory; Goodman, Negotiating While Fighting; MacDonald, Korea.
[89] CitationKeefer, ‘President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the End of the Korean War’; Stueck, The Korean War. See also CitationMedhurst, ‘Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign’; CitationJackson, ‘Beyond Brinkmanship’.
[92] CitationFriedman, ‘Nuclear Blackmail and the End of the Korean War’; CitationFoot, ‘Nuclear Coercion and the Ending of the Korean Conflict’.
[93] CitationStanley, Paths to Peace. See also Keefer, ‘President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the End of the Korean War’; Dingman, ‘Atomic Diplomacy during the Korean War’.
[95] Bailey, The Korean Armistice; Stueck, The Korean War.
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