The Korean War. Australia in the Giants' Playground by Forbes, Cameron - 2010

MacMillan, 2010 Book is in a very good condition.

Macmillan. Fine. 2011. Paperback. 1742610226 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 534 pages .

Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2011. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The Korean War has never really ended. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953 after three years of savage warfare, the conflict continues to simmer just below the surface, threatening at any moment to break into full-scale fighting. It makes the Korean peninsula one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world today. But the war itself has long been called the forgotten war. It was fought at the height of the Cold War, with the forces of the United Nations, led by the US, on the one had against the forces of Communism on the other, led by Mao Tse Tung's China. Australia was a part of the US-led coalition, and took part in some of the conflict's most savage fighting. But coming only five years after the end of World War Two, and before the full empowerment of the media that was to take place during the Vietnam War, what happened in Korea during those three long years has been largely overlooked by the public.… Read More

Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia. Very Good+. 2011. Paperback. 1742610226 . With illustrations, a very good copy. ; 230 x 150mm; x, 534 pages .

Sydney, Pan Macmillan/Macmillan first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers It was a war that shaped the Cold War, the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century, and where Australia won its key strategic alliance with America. Diggers paid a blood price for it. The pattern was set for our involvement in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. 238 x 148mm., pp. 534, b/w plates, maps, notes, biblio., index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, light rubbing on corners - no reading creases on spine. VG+ ISBN: 9781742610221