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Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War [Woodrow Wilson Center Ser
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- 9780231192743
- Publication Name
- Fearing the Worst : How Korea Transformed the Cold War
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Woodrow Wilson Center Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Width
- 0.7in
- Item Weight
- 33.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 600 Pages
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Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231192746
ISBN-13
9780231192743
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038289630
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Fearing the Worst : How Korea Transformed the Cold War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Series
Woodrow Wilson Center Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
600 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
33.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D843.W434 2020
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A masterful study of one of America's most consequential and most forgotten wars. Samuel F. Wells Jr. has weaved together astonishing stories of nuclear strategy and cut-throat bureaucracy in this must-read for anyone eager to understand how the Korean War changed the Cold War--and made the world what it is today., How did the global Cold War come into being and remain cold ? With the support of extensive, multi-archival, and insightful research, Samuel Wells has written an extremely important and nuanced book on the subject. It powerfully and convincingly demonstrates that the Korean War formed a critical turning point, redefining the actual trajectory or even essence of the Cold War that would engulf the two superpowers and prevail in the world in the ensuing four decades., A masterful study of one of America's most consequential and most forgotten wars. Samuel F. Wells Jr. weaves together astonishing stories of nuclear strategy and cut-throat bureaucracy in this must-read for anyone eager to understand how the Korean War changed the Cold War--and made the world what it is today., This is a valuable one-volume history that summarizes and updates the general understanding of the Korean War within Cold War history., This excellent monograph by Wells...describes how the Korean War transformed the US into a superpower., Wells has drawn on a massive body of documentation and secondary literature from both sides in the Cold War to produce an impressive synthesis of its evolution through the Korean War. Fast paced and persuasively argued, Fearing the Worst should attract an audience well beyond academe., A major work about a critical moment...this book is a must-read not just for students and specialists of the early Cold War but anyone interested in the evolution of American national security policy., This excellent book offers new insights into how the Korean War laid the basis for today's military competition with Russia, China, and North Korea. Wells analyzes how decisions taken during the Korean conflict dramatically expanded NATO into the central institution that protected the West through the four decades of the Cold War., [A] masterful new book... Fearing the Wors t is not just a history of the Korean War; it is also a history of politics and international relations during a watershed moment in the early Cold War. Happily, it is an exceptionally good history in all of those arenas., Wells tells the seldom understood story of how revolutionary the impact of Korea was on the nature and scale of the four-decade Cold War, and he does so with a masterful and definitive combination of detail, insight, new sources from both sides, and page-turning readability., Clear and engaging prose is a strength of this study. Wells deserves special praise not only for his extensive research in primary documents but also for his consultation of a long list of secondary works.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The War 1. Stalin Endorses War in Asia 2. Kim Il-sung Plans an Attack 3. Truman Consolidates US Commitments 4. Joseph McCarthy Sells the Politics of Fear 5. Paul Nitze Sounds the Tocsin 6. North Korea Drives South 7. Truman Reverses Policy 8. Douglas MacArthur Gambles and Wins 9. Mao Zedong Intervenes Massively 10. Peng Dehuai and Matthew Ridgway Fight to a Stalemate Part II. The Transformation 11. George C. Marshall and Robert Lovett Guide a US Buildup 12. Dean Acheson Leads the Defense of Europe 13. Andrei Tupolev Creates a Strategic Bomber Force 14. Curtis LeMay Builds the Strategic Air Command 15. Igor Kurchatov Develops Soviet Nuclear Weapons 16. Walter Bedell Smith Reforms and Expands the CIA 17. Korea Transforms the Cold War Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Topic
Public Policy / Military Policy, United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / Korean War, History & Theory, World / General, Military / United States
Lccn
2019-028614
Dewey Decimal
951.90421
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
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