The Korean War

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. 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