Writing primarily for the benefit of US foreign policy makers and scholars, Gause (director of the Foreign Leadership Studies Program at the federally-funded Center for Naval Analysis) aims to piece t
"Valuable insights of the flying environment that earmarked this first war of extensive use of jet combat aircraft." --Col. Joe McCue, USAF (Ret.), Air Power History Action-packed memoir by an America
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was
Perfect for educators or parents wishing to teach kids about different cultures, this new book in the Tuttle "All About Asia" series includes favorite games, foods, special holiday times and after-sc
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The t
“In The Naval Air War in Korea, Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feel- ing, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, in- cluding the highly significant facets of the transition
HEARTS OF IRON is the epic true story of a little-known but significant part of the Korean War, told by the brave men of the Flame Platoon, First Tank Battalion, First Marine Division. This book share
Literary Nonfiction. Northeast Asia Studies. Four kilometers wide and stretching 250 kilometers from the East Sea to the West Sea, the Korean Demilitarized Zone divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in
A hard-fighting soldier's story-from the trenches of America's first battle in the Cold War. From the devastating counterattack at Unsan to the thirty-four months he spent in captivity-a period o
North Korea's Institutional Politics defy traditional political models, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing o
Contributors to this volume explore the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional "us." They describe the multifacted ways "tradition" is produced and consumed within the frame of con
Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of hastily trained green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of
Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of mostly green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin R
Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of mostly green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin R
The Residents Of The Three Northern Provinces Of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital
This Remarkable Book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and presen
This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (The Jehol Diary') by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chi
This book examines the changes in politics, economics, society, and foreign policy in South Korea since 1980. Starting with a brief description of its history leading up to 1980, this book deals with South Korea's transition to democracy, the stunning economic development achieved since the 1960s, the 1997 financial crisis, and the economic reforms that followed and concludes with the North Korean nuclear crisis and foreign relations with regional powers. The theoretical framework of this book addresses how democratization affected all of these dimensions of South Korea. For instance, democratization allowed for the more frequent alternation of political elites from conservative to liberal and back to conservative. These elites initiated different policies for dealing with North Korea and held different views on South Korea's role in its alliance with the United States. Consequently, ideological divides in South Korean politics became more stark and the political process more combative
