Korea

by Alexander, Bevin

• ISBN13: 9780781808088
• ISBN10: 0781808081
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Summary

This best-selling account of the Korean War has been updated with two additional chapters. Photos from the first edition have been restored.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
June 25, 1950	1	(5)
How Did It Happen?	6	(4)
Partition	10	(6)
Hands Off Taiwan and Korea	16	(9)
Attack Across the 38th	25	(7)
Decision in Washington	32	(4)
War and the Quarantine of Taiwan	36	(6)
The Army of the United Nations	42	(4)
Goodbye to the Good Times	46	(7)
The Teenagers Stand and Fight	53	(10)
Withdrawal in Disorder	63	(5)
One Bonanza, Several Defeats	68	(8)
The Kum River	76	(6)
Taepyong-ni	82	(10)
Taejon	92	(16)
The Ghost Division	108	(8)
Retreat to the Naktong	116	(10)
The First Counteroffensive	126	(7)
The Days Along the Naktong	133	(8)
``We Are Going to Hold This Line''	141	(7)
Forging a Sword of Vengeance	148	(7)
MacArthur v. the Joint Chiefs	155	(8)
MacArthur Calls on Chiang Kai-shek	163	(6)
The Decision on Inchon	169	(7)
MacArthur Alienates Truman	176	(4)
The North Koreans Try Once More	180	(8)
The Joint Chiefs Get Cold Feet	188	(6)
Inchon	194	(17)
The Assault on Seoul	211	(8)
Breakout from the Perimeter	219	(9)
The United States Decides to Conquer	228	(12)
Red China Warns the United States	240	(9)
Up to the Chongchon River	249	(5)
Destination: The Yalu River	254	(7)
The Warning Blow Falls	261	(8)
Disaster at Unsan	269	(9)
The Lost Battalion	278	(5)
The Chinese Back Off	283	(4)
A Time to Reconsider	287	(6)
Empty Rhetoric on the Potomac	293	(6)
A Different Kind of Army	299	(8)
Attack into the Unknown	307	(5)
The ``Home-by-Christmas'' Offensive	312	(8)
The March to the Sea	320	(8)
The Agony of the Three Battalions	328	(12)
An Act of Defiance	340	(13)
The Breakout	353	(15)
MacArthur Panics	368	(6)
Back to the 38th Parallel	374	(5)
The New Year's Eve Offensive	379	(8)
Acheson's Calculated Risk	387	(12)
North to the Kansas Line	399	(6)
MacArthur Finally Does It	405	(9)
The MacArthur Hearings	414	(4)
The Spring Offensive	418	(8)
Talking Peace and Practicing War	426	(12)
The Bloody Ridges	438	(11)
Another Try for Peace	449	(7)
The POWs Seize the Stage	456	(8)
Rhee the Despot, Clark the Hawk	464	(7)
Others Take a Hand	471	(6)
The Final Crisis	477	(7)
The Long Shadow of the Korean War	484	(9)
Notes	493	(56)
Afterword	549	(6)
Index	555