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In ""The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning"", one of our most distinguished military historians argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the twentieth century was first and foremost a war between Koreans that began in 1948. In the second volume of a monumental…

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1 author picked The War for Korea, 1950-1951 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I consider Millett the finest historian of the Korean War, and this, Volume Two of his trilogy, makes that case abundantly clear.

The sheer scope of his research, the clarity of his writing, his grasp of the overarching strategy, and his understanding of Korean history run through this book.

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