Korea: The War Before Vietnam
by Callum MacDonald
This book makes the point that the Korean War was much more like the Vietnam War than any other war before that.
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“Callum was a friend of mine, just because I read his book and got to know him, and I think this is one of the very best books on the war. It makes the point that you can also draw out of Reginald Thompson’s book: that the Korean War was much more like the Vietnam War than any other war before that. It had very shifting lines. The guerrillas were very much involved, particularly in the first year or so” Read more...
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Bruce Cumings, Historian