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- Book Synopsis
- "Perceptive and compelling - often heart-rending, sometimes downright terrifying… The lessons are all too pertinent in today's toxic political climate, with Korea once again a centrepiece and victim." Noam Chomsky "This is a very important book, an eye-opening one, and a wise one. … beautifully written…the phrase 'as gripping as a thriller,' really applies... No-one with an interest in recent history and current affairs should fail to read it." AC Grayling Korea: Where the American Century Began is a timely new account of the role of the US in the Korean War and its responsibility for the current impasse on the Korean peninsula. It provides the history and the context that explains US involvement; why there has been no peace treaty, no unification, and why we now live with the threat of nuclear war in Northeast Asia. Few people understand the real failures of the Korean War or that the United States was the first to abrogate the armistice. As President Trump threatens to 'totally destroy' North Korea, this book tells the tale that fires Pyongyang's indignation - from the disastrous decision to invade North Korea; to the longest retreat in American military history; to the napalm, the nuclear threats, the biological warfare and the ghastly treatment of POWs in camps run by the US Army. Korea examines Washington's role from 1945 to the present in the creation and worsening of relations -how hubris, overreach and militarism have dominated policy, and how, in pursuit of regional hegemony in Northeast Asia, the United States has made a bad situation worse.
- About The Author
- Michael Pembroke was born in Sydney in 1955. He is the author of Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy (2013), which was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and Korea: Where the American Century Began (2018), which was short-listed for the Queensland Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards. He was educated at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge and was a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2017. Pembroke is a former Supreme Court judge (2010-20) and is now the Chairman of Red Room Poetry.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781743793930
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Books, (05 April 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 500 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 28 mm
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