BRUCE CUMINGS

El interesado en la historia y las problemáticas de la Península Coreana que quizás no puede acceder a la versión original, encuentra en este libro un aporte muy significativo y renovador para el estudio de esta peninsula que sigue siendo noticia de primera plana desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ademas, la Republica de Corea (del Sur) es reconocida mundialmente como uno de los tigres asiaticos y su modelo de desarrollo socio-economico es cada vez mas estudiado por los especialistas y por el publico en general, que quiere comprender las causas y los entramados historicos, como Cumings lo señala, del Milagro del Han. Creemos que este es un aporte a la posibilidad de un conocimiento profundo sobre Corea y su region, que incentiva al lector hispanohablante a continuar ampliandolo.

A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED. For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japans occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of Americas postWorld War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides.Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.Praise for The Korean WarA powerful revisionist history . . . a sobering corrective.The New York TimesWorth reading . . . This work raises the question of what Korea can tell us about the outlook for Iraq and Afghanistan.Financial TimesWell-sourced [and] elegantly presented.The Wall Street Journal