Hidden History of the Korean War
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Monthly Review Press · Print & ebook · May 1, 2023
Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever?and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and ?forgotten? even in its own time.
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- Who it’s for
- I.F. Stone’s investigative journalism examines the Korean War’s official story with a skeptical eye.
- Genres
- Korean War History, Cold War History, Korean History
- Published
- Monthly Review Press, May 1, 2023
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Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever?and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and ?forgotten? even in its own time. At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist I.F. Stone released The Hidden History of the Korean War, a courageous work of investigative journalism that demolished the official story of America?s so-called ?forgotten war.?
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As the war spiraled to its conclusion, Stone closely analyzed openly available U.S. intelligence narratives on the war?s official start, and the actions of key players like John Foster Dulles, General Douglas MacArthur, and Chiang Kai-shek. The result of his investigations was a controversial book that raised questions about the origin of the war, made a case that the U.S. government had manipulated the United Nations, and gave evidence that the U.S. military and South Korean oligarchy dragged out the war by sabotaging peace talks. With a new introduction by Tim Beal and Greg Elich, 70 years after its initial publication The Hidden History of the Korean War remains a powerful dissemination of the ?hidden history? behind the dominant historical narrative, as relevant as ever.
Reading Against the Record
I.F. Stone’s investigative journalism examines the Korean War’s official story with a skeptical eye.
Come here for
- A close reading of official U.S. accounts of the Korean War
- Questions about diplomacy, military decisions, and the familiar war narrative
Expect
- Rigorous scrutiny of intelligence narratives and key wartime decisions
- A challenge to the dominant account, grounded in the book’s historical argument
Where it sits
| Korean War History | 99% |
|---|---|
| Cold War History | 51% |
| Korean History | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historiography
- Korean History
- Korean War History
- Political Economy
- Authors
- I.F. Stone, Gregory Elich, Tim Beal
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press
- Published
- May 1, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Historiography