Abbreviations Used in Text xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(10)
PART I THE WAR
11(276)
1 Liberation and Division
15(21)
End of Empire
16(3)
Red Army in Korea
19(8)
General Hodge Goes to Korea
27(9)
2 Two Koreas
36(19)
Failed Revolution
44(3)
Yosu, Sunch'on, and Cheju-do
47(8)
3 Momentous Decisions
55(11)
War Drums
60(3)
Endgame
63(3)
4 War for the South
66(32)
Desperate Days
73(7)
War for the North
80(18)
Savage War
85 Uncommon Coalition
98(15)
Integrating an Army
100(8)
Common Cause
108(5)
6 Crossing the 38th Parallel
113(16)
Lessons of History
116(1)
Pilgrimage to Wake
117(2)
"If War Is Inevitable, Let It Be Waged Now"
119(5)
First Strike
124(5)
7 An Entirely New War
129(43)
"Defeat with Dignity and Good Grace"
139(9)
December Massacres
148(4)
"Revolt of the Primitives"
152(3)
Wrong Way Ridgway
155(10)
Lost Chances
165(7)
8 Quest for Victory
172(21)
The General and the Statesman
173(7)
Spring Offensive
180(5)
Magnificent Glosters
185(4)
Victory Denied?
189(4)
9 The Stalemate
193(15)
Truce Talks
195(6)
Voluntary Repatriation
201(7)
10 "Let Them March Till They Die"
208(29)
Death March
209(3)
Valley Camp to Camp 5
212(5)
Camp 10
217(3)
Camp 12
220(6)
Return of the Defeated
226(11)
11 Propaganda Wars
237(29)
Tunnel War
239(3)
American Bugs
242(15)
Koje-do
257(9)
12 Armistice, at Last
266(21)
"I Shall Go to Korea"
267(6)
Death of a Dictator
273(5)
Divided Nation
278(9)
PART II COLD WAR
287(66)
13 Lessons of Korea
293(18)
Feminized Nation
294(6)
The "Never Again Club"
300(3)
The Geneva Conference
303(3)
Eisenhower's Warning
306(5)
14 Deepening the Revolution
311(17)
The Tragic Demise of Peng Dehuai
318(3)
Khrushchev, Korea, and Vietnam
321(7)
15 Korea and Vietnam
328(25)
Lyndon B. Johnson: Refighting the Korean War
330(7)
Park Chung Hee's Crusade
337(16)
PART III LOCAL WAR
353(72)
16 Legitimacy Wars
357(26)
August Purge
359(6)
Military Line
365(6)
The Blue House Raid and the Pueblo Incident
371(6)
Confessions
377(6)
17 Old Allies, New Friends
383(14)
Tensions between Allies
385(4)
Opening to China
389(8)
18 War for Peace
397(17)
Withdrawal
401(3)
Backlash
404(6)
To Seoul
410(4)
19 End of an Era
414(11)
Kwangju Uprising
417(2)
Students and the Politics of Legitimacy
419(6)
PART IV AFTER THE COLD WAR
425(39)
20 North Korea and the World
429(17)
Showdown
434(4)
Defueling Crisis
438(3)
Accord
441(5)
21 Winners and Losers
446(18)
Triumph and Forgiveness
446(4)
The North Korean Famine
450(6)
Gulag Nation
456(8)
Epilogue: China's Rise, War's End? 464(17)
Appendix 481(6)
Notes 487(92)
Index 579