Michael Howard writes about the Korean War, and about leaders that could not be abandoned
Michael Howard, 26 November 1987
The Origins of the Korean War
by Peter Lowe.
Longman, 256 pp., £6.95, July 1986,0 582 49278 5 Show More
by Peter Lowe.
Longman, 256 pp., £6.95, July 1986,
Korea: The War before Vietnam
by Callum MacDonald.
Macmillan, 330 pp., £25, November 1986,0 333 33011 0 Show More
by Callum MacDonald.
Macmillan, 330 pp., £25, November 1986,
“... War was a struggle, not only between two power-blocs for the control of the Korean peninsula, as Callum MacDonald bleakly concludes, nor for the vindication of international law, as Max Hastings is still inclined to believe, but for the soul of America: a bitter debate over what kind of super-power the United States was going to be. It is not surprising ... ”
