Beyond collective amnesia: a Korean War retrospective (1).

From: International Social Science Review | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Pierpaoli, Paul G., Jr | Copyright information

For nearly three decades after the end of the Korean War, American veterans of the conflict--along with increasing numbers of historians and other scholars--bemoaned the fact that Korea had become a "forgotten war." In fact, in the United States there were signs that the war was being forgotten even as it was being fought. After fifty years of retrospection, however, it has become readily apparent that the Korean War marked a great watershed in Korean and Cold War history, not to m...

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