The Korean War, by Brian Catchpole
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000
347 pages plus 16 pages b&w photos, Endnotes, Appendices, Bibliography, Index
Library: 951.9 CAT
Description
June 1950: the North Koreans invade South Korea. Truman is reluctant to intervene, but two weeks later a UN resolution is passed setting up a unified command. General MacArthur's amphibious assault at Inchon liberates South Korea, and the momentous decision is made to strike north across the 38th Parallel towards the Manchurian border. Quite unexpectedly, a 'new kind of war' erupts, as 1.3 million Chinese troops pour into North Korea, swamping UN positions.
Thus began the struggle that would not end until the armistice in 1953 and which saw the world teeter on the brink of a Third World War. Now, fifty years on, Brian Catchpole's account of the first and only war fought by the UN against a communist aggressor nation provides a clear view of a conflict in a faraway peninsula where young men battled and often died for principles they barely understood.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Outbreak of War
2. The Defense of the Pusan Perimeter, 1950
3. The Hammer and the Anvil: Inchon and Beyond
4. the Invasion of North Korea
5. China Defeats the United Nations
6. The Chinese Winter Offenses and the UN response, January-April 1951
7. The Chinese Offenses, April-May 1951
8. Talking and Fighting, May-November 1951
9. Life and Death on the Line, 1951-2
10. Naval and Air Operations in the Korean Theatre, 1950-1
11. Prisoners of War
12. Naval Warfare, 1952-3
13. The Air War, 1952-3
14. Propaganda and Public Opinion
15. Canad, New Zeeland, and Australia: Their Special Contribution
16. The Battles of the Hook and Pork Chop, 1952-3
17. Partisans and Guerillas: the Covert War in Korea
18. The Armistice and After
19. Perspecticves on the Korean WAr
Notes and REferences
Appendidices 1 - III
Bibliography
Index
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