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The Korean War

Australia in the Giant's Playground

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 The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea’s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical.©2010 Cameron Forbes. (P)2011 Bolinda Publishing Military World Korean War War Imperial Japan Russia China Imperialism Soviet Union Self-Determination

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"It is a splendid piece of storytelling …" (The Weekend Australian)
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i brought this book to find out about the RAR in korea it rambles into military history and there is very little content about korean war. i have sent it back, frustrating book not whats on the title.

poor rambling book about war

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