The Korean War

Sir Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, some of which are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, bestsellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Alistair Horneauthor of "The Price of Glory"Fair and immensely readable...a major contribution to more than just military history....Max Hastings is among the ablest of the younger generation of British military historians....He now illuminates the struggle that changed all perceptions of the post-1945 world.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Prologue: Task Force Smith

1. Origins of a Tragedy

2. Invasion

3. The West's Riposite

Washington

Tokyo

Seoul

4. Walker's War

Retreat to the Naktong

Dressing Ranks

The Pusan Perimeter

5. Inchon

6. To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel

7. The Coming of the Chinese

8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir

9. The Winter of Crisis

The Big Bugout

Washington and Tokyo

The Arrival of Ridgway

10. Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur

11. The Struggle on the Imjin

12. The Stony Road

Toward Stalemate

Panmunjom

The Cause

13. The Intelligence War

14. The Battle in the Air

15. The War on the Hills

16. The Prisoners

17. The Pursuit of Peace

Koje-do

"I Shall Go to Korea"

The Last Act

18. Hindsight

Chronology

Notes and References

Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Index

List of Maps

Korea

The Invasion of South Korea

From Inchon to Seoul

The Chinese Intervention

Retreat from the Chosin Reservoir

The Battle of the Imjin River