Bibliography of the Korean War

This is a list of books about the Korean War.

Campaigns and battles

Russ, Martin. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950, Penguin, 2000, 464 pages,

Combat studies Air combat

Hallion, Richard P. The Naval Air War in Korea (1986).

Warrell, Kenneth P. "Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korean War." Journal of Military History 72.2 (2008): 451–76. Print.

Ground combat

Flanagan, E.M. Jr., Airborne – A Combat History Of American Airborne Forces, The Random House Publishing Group, 2002 Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. U. Press of Kansas, 2003. 472 pp.

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Intelligence gathering

Logistics

Naval combat

Psychological warfare

Strategy

Ohn, Chang-Il. "The Korean War of 1950–1953: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Strategy." Revue Internationale D'histoire Militaire 70 (1988): 211–41. Print.

Unit cohesion

Cultural impact

Conway-Lanz, Sahr (2006). Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II. New York: Routledge.

Encyclopedia and reference work Brune, Lester and Robin Higham, eds., The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research (Greenwood Press, 1994)

Edwards, Paul M. The A to Z of the Korean War. The Scarecrow Press, 2005. 307 pp. Edwards, Paul M. The Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict : A Dictionary of Hills, Outposts and other Sites of Military Action. McFarland & Co., 2006. 267 pp. Edwards, Paul M. The Korean War: a Historical Dictionary. The Scarecrow Press, 2003. 367 pp. Edwards, Paul M. Korean War Almanac (2006)

Matray, James I. (ed.) Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Greenwood Press, 1991. 626 pp.

Millett, Allan R, "A Reader's Guide To The Korean War" Journal of Military History (1997) Vol. 61 No. 3; p. 583+ full text in JSTOR; free online revised version Millett, Allan R. "The Korean War: A 50 Year Critical Historiography," Journal of Strategic Studies 24 (March 2001), pp. 188–224. full text in Ingenta and Ebsco.

Sandler, Stanley ed., The Korean War: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1995). Summers, Harry G. Korean War Almanac (1990).

International Law

Law of war and international humanitarian law Conway-Lanz, Sahr (2006). Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II. New York: Routledge.

Leaders

James, D. Clayton The Years of MacArthur: Triumph and Disaster, 1945–1964 (1985), scholarly biography of MacArthur James, D. Clayton with Anne Sharp Wells, Refighting the Last War: Command and Crises in Korea, 1950–1953 (1993) Leitich, Keith. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Korean War: A Biographical Dictionary (2006) covers Americans only

Official history British Commonwealth

O'Neil, Robert, Australia in the Korean War 1950–53 (2 vols). Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1981 and 1985.

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United States . Field Jr., James A. History of United States Naval Operations: Korea, University Press of the Pacific, 2001, . official US Navy history. Futrell, Robert F. The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953, rev. ed. (Office of the Chief of Air Force History, 1983), official US Air Force history. . Montross, Lynn et al., History of US Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953, 5 vols. (Washington: Historical Branch, G-3, Headquarters, Marine Corps, 1954–72). . .

Oral history, recollections and memoirs

Bin Yu and Xiaobing Li, eds. Mao's Generals Remember Korea, University Press of Kansas, 2001, hardcover 328 pp.

Matthew B. Ridgway, The Korean War (1967) Millett, Allan R. Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945–1953. Brassey's, 2003. 310 pp. Toland, John. In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 (1991)

Watson, Brent Byron. Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. 2002. 256 pp.

Origins, politics, diplomacy

Carpenter, William M. "The Korean War: A Strategic Perspective Thirty Years Later." Comparative Strategy 2.4 (1980): 335–53. Print Casey, Steven. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.

Foot, Rosemary, "Making Known the Unknown War: Policy Analysis of the Korean Conflict in the Last Decade," Diplomatic History 15 (Summer 1991): 411–31, in JSOR. Foot, Rosemary. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. Print. . Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis; and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War, Stanford University Press, 1993, , diplomatic. Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. Temple University Press, 1986, focus is on Washington. Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean Conflict (Greenwood Press, 1999).

Matray, James. "Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision in Korea," Journal of American History 66 (September, 1979), 314–33. in JSTOR. Millett, Allan R. The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning vol 1 (2005) , origins. Oliver, Robert T. Why War Came in Korea. New York: Fordham UP, 1950. Print. Pembroke, Michael (2018). Korea: Where the American Century Began. London, England: Oneworld Publications. Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War (1959). Stueck, William. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton U. Press, 2002. 285 pp. Stueck, Jr., William J. The Korean War: An International History (Princeton University Press, 1995), diplomatic

Overview General

Conway-Lanz, Sahr (2006). Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II. New York: Routledge. Cumings, Bruce (2011). The Korean War: A History. New York (N.Y.): Random House Inc.

British perspective.

Hickey, Michael, The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, 1950–1953 (London: John Murray, 1999) .

O'Ballance, Edgar. Korea: 1950–1953. Hamden: Archon, 1969. Print. Pembroke, Michael (2018). Korea: Where the American Century Began. London, England: Oneworld Publications. Shaara, Jeff (2017), The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War. New York: Ballantine Books.

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India

South Korea

United States

Conway-Lanz, Sahr (2006). Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II. New York: Routledge. Cumings, Bruce (2011). The Korean War: A History. New York (N.Y.): Random House Inc.

Pembroke, Michael (2018). Korea: Where the American Century Began. London, England: Oneworld Publications.

Turkey

Prisoners of war Bassett, Richard M. And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American POW in North Korea. Kent State U. Press, 2002. 117 pp.

Unit history