How wars begin

Jon Halliday

  • The Korean War: History and Tactics edited by David Rees
    Orbis, 128 pp, £7.99, September 1984, ISBN 0 85613 649 2
  • Der Koreakrieg 1950 bis 1953: Das Scheitern der Amerikanischen Aggression gegen die KDVR by Olaf Groehler
    Militarverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 120 pp, DM 6.50, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
  • The Rainy Spell, and Other Korean Stories translated by Suh Ji-moon
    Onyx, 255 pp, £12.95, December 1984, ISBN 0 906383 17 X
  • The Complete Book of MASH by Suzy Kalter
    Columbus, 240 pp, £15.95, October 1984, ISBN 0 86287 080 1
  • The Last Days of MASH by Alan Alda and Arlene Alda
    Columbus, 150 pp, £8.95, July 1984, ISBN 0 88101 008 1

On 5 July 1953, three weeks before the end of the Korean War, Winston Churchill was about to step out onto the croquet lawn with his doctor, Lord Moran, and with Field Marshal Montgomery, when Monty asked him: ‘What is our policy in Korea? It is no good making war without a policy.’ Churchill replied with a reference to the President of South Korea:

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