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A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving effect on the globe. Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War hasn't yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, the one that risks relating to the world's superpowers - again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the center of the next World War - when Korean independence was fiercely debated between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill - to the present day, as North Korea, with China's aid, stockpiles nuclear weapons while starving its people. At the center of this conflict can be an ongoing struggle between North and South Korea for the mantle of Korean legitimacy, a "brother's war," which is constantly on the fuel tensions on the Korean peninsula and the region. Drawing from newly available diplomatic archives in China, South Korea, and the former Soviet Union, Jager analyzes top-level military strategy. She brings to life the bitter struggles of the postwar period and shows the way the conflict between your two Koreas has continued to evolve to the present, with important and tragic consequences for the region and the globe. Her portraits of the numerous fascinating characters that populate this history - Truman, MacArthur, Kim Il Sung, Mao, Stalin, and Park Chung Hee - reveal the complexities of the Korean War and the repercussions this conflict has already established on the lives of many individuals, statesmen, soldiers, and ordinary people, like the an incredible number of hungry North Koreans for whom daily existence is still a nightmarish struggle. The most accessible, up-to date, and balanced account yet written, Brothers at War will become the definitive chronicle of the struggle's origins and aftermath and its global impact for years to come.
