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The Encyclopedia of the Korean War is the most comprehensive reference work on the war to date and will set a new standard for military history. Following on the heels of the triumphant Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, it features:
600+ entries, many built on new information from Russian and Chinese archives 100+ contributors, both civilian professors and military officers 147 primary source documents 150+ illustrations 20 maps Coverage of pre- and postwar Korea Coverage of hitherto secret Soviet and Chinese involvement Korean and U.S. perspectives Chronology of Korean history Glossary General bibliography Cross-references Index
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Very useful.......2006-12-24
I've been reading and studying about the Korean War recently. I had bought this encyclopedia some months ago in anticipation of this. While I have read only a few entries in the encyclopedia, the ones I have read have all been very informative with good depth. As might be expected given the length of the book, there is a wide range of topics covered.
As to format, there is a very useful listing of all the topic entries at the front of the book, along with a plethora of plain but clear maps. I might mention though, that the map on p. xxviii, intended to be a map of the Inchon landings, is actually a reprint of the initial North Korean invasion map. Also, under the entry for "Orders of Battle", one is directed to Appendix I, which seems to be missing. However, in an undertaking as extensive as this, these anomolies are minor.
In sum, this book is a very important and useful addition to Korean War historiography. I'm certainly glad it exists and that I bought it!
For school and community library military history collection.......2002-05-06
Encyclopedia Of The Korean War: A Political, Social, And Military History is deftly edited by Spencer C. Tucker and presents the reader with a thorough, comprehensive, in-depth, and deeply researched compendium of knowledge over the Korean conflict often referred to as "The Forgotten War." Entries are listed in A to Z format; black-and-white photographs sparsely illustrate the detailed, matter-of fact text. Strongly recommended for school and community library military history collections, the Encyclopedia Of The Korean War is a superbly presented reference for looking up details concerning people, places, weapons, politics, military actions and much more about this pivotal Asian conflict.
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Conflict in Korea: An Encyclopedia (Roots of Modern Conflict)
James E. Hoare , and
Susan Pares
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First major clash with a communist army
The Korean War was America's first ideological conflict and the first large-scale clash between U.S./UN forces and a Communist army. More than any other event, it signaled the beginning of Cold War mobilization for the U.S. and NATO, and even though the specter of international communism had since faded away, the animosities of "The Forgotten War" threaten to flare up even today.
Focuses on military topics
The Korean Warcontains articles of varying lengths on key topics that range from the origins of the conflict, ground, naval and air operations, and tactical planning to the Truman-MacArthur face-off, the POW issue, and armistice negotiations. The bulk of the Encyclopedia focuses on such military topics as the use of artillery, the pioneering concept of helicopter evacuation of wounded, new infantry tactics dictated by Communist POW riots, civil affairs, larger military units, and communications. There are also articles on civilian and military leaders, including President Eisenhower, General Ridgeway, Kim Il Sung, Chou En lai, Syngman Rhee, and others.
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*Useful to librarians, scholars, researchers and students alike
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*Covers an extraordinary range of key topics
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Great refernce text as well as easy reading.......2000-11-09
Wow! Exactly what the name implies. An encyclopaedia about the korean war, chock full of useful essays and lengthy exposes. A good place to start research, or even better, to supplement your knowledge about Korean War events with timely, crisp additions. All of them are concise, informative and well referenced, if not necessarily well cross referenced (see below).
There are many chronologies but the most useful are the articles about weapons (armor, artillery air support, etc...) regiments, aircraft, and the diverse countries (Greece, Turkey, Ethiopia...) that lent a hand to the effort. Also informative are the discussions of isses (biological warfare, POWs, conscientious objectors, etc). The numerous articles placing the war into a larger world context (home front, press coverage, United Nations, etc...) also are helpful. Biographies of US, South Korean, and a smattering of NKPA, Russian and Chinese figures add a personal dimension to the conflict. Conflicts between national interest and cold war politics wove a complex net of intrigue between the UN forces (America, France, Britain, Canada..etc) as well as amidst the nonaligned states (such as India) and the belligerents (China, Russia, North Korea). In fact, the best way to enjoy this encyclopedia is to read just as you would a book...from beginning to end. Don't be surprised if you end up reading it several times.
This reference text is a collection of essays by individual authors. A risk of doing an encyclopedia this way is, without proper overall editing, the articles will be somewhat disjoint at one moment and repetitive at others. Sanders' text does suffer this flaw. In addition there are glaring oversights in some of the essays: the articles on the CIA or Intelligence, for example, never mention the crucial role played by Hans Tofte. Numerous articles use Goulden's Korea: The Untold Story of the War, but Tofte's chicanery with the Norwegian hospital ship (prominently described in Goulden) goes unnoticed. Still....I stand by my original opinion in this review...I loved this encyclopedia, and still have it from the library after nearly 3 weeks of reading.
Do any of the articles add significant insights not discussed in other books? I can think of two. The book, without making excuses for the Army's poor training and performance in the early weeks of the War, does make it clear that it was the lack of available facilities on the Japanese Islands (only Gotemba, a small area near the base of Mt. fuji still in use today) that made training impossible above the battalion level. (the Japanese used to train their forces in Manchuria!) The lengthy essay on the Navy makes it clear that branch confined the conflic by patrolling the waters of China, the Yellow sea, and the Taiwan strait. The Air force also receives kudos for its sweeping the skies and combat support. The authors point out that Marine/Navy combat support was better overall, but that the US Air force mission was broader in scope than that of Marine air.
In summary...a good book. A fantastic mixture of facts about, chronology of, and the environment in which the korean War took place.
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TRUMAN, HARRY S.: An entry from Thomson Gale's West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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“West's Encyclopedia of American Law†is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind. Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.
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American law of veterans: An encyclopedia of the rights and benefits of veterans and their dependents, arising from service during World War II, the Korean ... statues, regulations, forms, and procedure
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Korean War: An Encyclopedia
Stanley Sandler
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From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings—from its earliest days—with the rest of the world.
It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced—and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country—in two centuries—drove the French and the Spanish out of North America; forced Britain, then the world’s greatest empire, to respect American interests; dominated coalitions that defeated German and Japanese bids for world power; replaced the tottering British Empire with a more flexible and dynamic global system built on American power; triumphed in the Cold War; and exported its language, culture, currency, and political values throughout the world.
Yet despite, and often because of, this success, both Americans and foreigners over the decades have routinely considered American foreign policy to be amateurish and blundering, a political backwater and an intellectual wasteland.
Now, in this provocative study, Mead revisits our history to counter these appraisals. He attributes this unprecedented success (as well as recurring problems) to the interplay of four schools of thought, each with deep roots in domestic politics and each characterized by a central focus or concern, that have shaped our foreign policy debates since the American Revolution—the Hamiltonian: the protection of commerce; the Jef-
fersonian: the maintenance of our democratic system; the Jacksonian: populist values and military might; and the Wilsonian: moral principle. And he delineates the ways in which they have continually, and for the most part beneficially, informed the intellectual and political bases of our success as a world power. These four schools, says Mead, are as vital today as they were two hundred years ago, and they can and should guide the nation through the challenges ahead.
Special Providence is a brilliant analysis, certain to influence the way America thinks about its national past, its future, and the rest of the world.
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Very Insightful and a Fun Read.......2007-04-01
Walter Russell Mead is a fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, a position which makes him more than eligible to write a definitive work on the history and essential character of United States' foreign policy. This book makes two basic claims:
1. That United States' foreign policy has historically been distinct from that of Europe. Whereas Europe's foreign policy can be characterized as Continental Realism (think of foreign policy as a chess game... "you move your piece there and I'll move mine here), the United States' foreign policy has traditionally been driven more by economics. Mead's ultimate conclusion in this matter is that historical judgment has been in favor of the United States' mode of foreign relations; even those mistakes which the United States have made aren't as bad as the mistakes of the European powers.
2. The foreign policy of the Unites States has always been driven (and continues to be drive) by four "schools" of thought. They are the: Jeffersonian (basically isolationist), Jacksonian (populist; the "sleeping tiger"), Wilsonian (liberal globalist with a humanitarian bent, i.e. the U.N.), and Hamiltonian (liberal globalist with an economic bent, i.e. the World Bank).
Mead spends the first part of his book illuminating the differences between American and European foreign policy and subsequently defending American foreign policy. He does this with a good amount of wit which makes for an entertaining read. The bulk of this book deals with the various "schools" of American foreign policy, fist explaining the schools and then dealing with the ways in which those schools relate. It should be pointed out that Mead goes to great pains to be objective when dealing with the various schools; more than once he emphasizes that all the schools have their own sets of virtues. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the character of United States' foreign policy. Mead is a good writer and very insightful. Five stars for an excellent book.
Mead Takes a New Angle.......2006-04-19
In this book Mead argues that American foreign policy has not only changed the world, but it has changed the way the world deals with foreign policy. He says that while American foreign policy was not quite as active before the World War II it was still making headway with accomplishments including the French alignment during the Revolutionary war, The Treaty of Versailles, the expansion of U.S. territory, and the construction of the Panama Canal. He also tells us that from the beginning there were four different ideologies that shaped the political landscape of what would become U.S. foreign policy. These four different schools of thought were Hamiltonians, Wilsonians, Jacksonians, and Jeffersonians. Mead states that "While the American system is far from perfect, each of the four schools is able to combine effectively with the others...As the kaleidoscope of American foreign policy turns through the years, the schools combine recombine in one new coalition after another" (page 312). He tells us that the best way for foreign policy to function is when there is an informed public that places as much interest in foreign policy as in domestic. He says that, "...the most likely way to achieve this goal will be to cultivate an informed public opinion that understands the big sweeping picture of American foreign policy through history..." (page 97).
The accessibility of the information in this book could be quite difficult without some basic knowledge of the history of U.S. foreign policy. The recommended reader would probably be those greatly interested in politics or as a textbook for upper level undergraduate courses and graduate school students in the political science field
Mead on Special Providence.......2005-08-21
This is a clever book by an author who must be brilliant and who clearly is plugged into a great network of information and expertise. The book's identification of four flavors of U.S. foreign policy is handy and seems more accurate than its traditional two-way rivals: liberal vs. conservative, or idealistic vs. realistic.
As a "macro" theory, Mead supports the four-way approach by reference to "micro" foundations in U.S. political demography, particularly by citing the work of David Hackett Fischer. Mead's four schools are also reminiscent of the four-way Myers-Briggs typing of personality preferences: Jacksonians as SJs, Jeffersonians as SPs, Hamiltonians as NTs, and Wilsonians as NFs?
Mead's book is clever in at least two other respects.
First, Mead risks little actual analysis and advice regarding real-world foreign policy. His main point about the outside world is that U.S. foreign policy is easier to formulate and implement when the world is simple. Humorist Richard Armour made a similar point when he concluded one of his historical reviews with the observation that the American people of the 1950s were "secure in the knowledge of whom to hate." This continues to be an important point: it helps illustrate the current usefulness the Arab Muslim image in building a broad U.S. political movement.
Second, Mead has something for everyone -- at least, for every American. With malice toward none, with charity for all, he has praise for all four of the U.S. schools. He has obviously struggled with his presentation of the Jacksonian school (the militant fundamentalists), which is the one that seems farthest from Mead's roots as an intellectual. Mead credits Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. with helping him be positive about Andrew Jackson himself.
But although Mead disclaims triumphalism, he implicitly evaluates foreign policy in nationalistic terms: gains of territory and other wealth for the U.S., with low U.S. casualties, is the measure of U.S. foreign policy achievement. While he regrets non-U.S. casualties, he warns against trying to make too much of the rest of the world.
By these standards, Mead proclaims U.S. foreign policy a success and thus well conceived, even in the period before the First World War, when traditionally the U.S. was not supposed to be paying much attention to foreign affairs.
This seeming paradox is partly explained by a factor that Mead does not emphasize sufficiently: the private sector's role in expanding U.S. territory. Private American colonization went ahead of the U.S. Government into a large part of what became U.S. lands: the trans-Appalachian area, West Florida, Texas, California, Utah, and Hawaii, among the successful cases.
Mead does note briefly that "before the Civil War Southerners looked to Texas, Central America, and Cuba for more slave states," but he does not tell in any detail the story of private U.S. adventurers' attempted conquests in such areas, or of the U.S. Government's official actions for and against these efforts. The case of the Philippines provides a contrasting example, where the U.S. Government took the initiative in conquering the territory without private American colonization. However, the non-governmental pattern resumed in the 1900s with private Americans' participation in Israeli colonization, creating a Texas-type, lone-star republic, which, although not annexed, has a "special relationship" with the U.S.
These examples illustrate a mechanism by which the U.S. expanded its territory with low U.S. Government troop casualties, and thus had a successful foreign policy by Mead's standard, without the U.S. Government paying as much attention to foreign policy as that success might imply.
Obviously, territorial expansion has generated blowback, which the U.S. Government has often anticipated and tried to avoid or limit. Mead also recognizes the need to deal with this downside of expansionary foreign policy. He describes very effectively how the Hamiltonian and Wilsonian schools offer alternatives for succeeding in the larger world.
We in the U.S. have family, friends, homes, businesses, and cultural interests outside our borders, which we will not want to neglect. Mead's clarifying work is a substantial contribution to helping us think about our approach.
Thoroughly non-partisan; much predictive power.......2005-02-05
The four "schools" Mead presents have compelling narratives that resonate in all of us yet are somewhat in conflict with each other: are we free traders? do we agitate for a better world? should we keep ourselves to ourselves? if we fight do we utterly destroy our enemies?
Mead has helped me understand the "other side", and be much more sympathetic to these points of view. Whenever I ponder US foreign policy questions, I now begin by asking myself how Mead's schools align on the question. Further, I find Mead's schools are quite relevant and interesting when applied to domestic issues.
Slow, but intelligent read.......2004-10-08
I studied political science in college and consider myself to be interested in politics, especially foreign policy. Despite that, I found it very difficult to make may way through this book. While the subject matter was interesting, the style made it difficult to read large portions of the book in a single sitting. However, that should not take away from the obvious intelligence and research that went into this book. The description of the four various school of foreign policy is quite thorough and sheds light on how both the public and elected officials view the United States' role in the world. The book provides an excellent description and history of foreign policy, but those looking for a prediction on the 21st century will be disappointed. Those who have only a cursory interest in foreign policy should look elsewhere. Those who read anything they can get their hands on in terms of foreign policy would benefit the most from this book.
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a must for anyone interested in birds.......1999-03-19
this is not only a complete list of all the modern birds of the world, but a revision based on dna testing by the authors sibley and monroe. This offers a new taxonomy of the worlds birds with many startling changes. It is a fascinating and comprehensive work. those educated on the wetmore and amadon classification will have to reeducate themselves.
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A Supplement to Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World
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