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The encyclopedia of the Korean War

by Spencer Tucker, Paul G. Pierpaoli, Xiaobing Li, James Irving Matray

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A comprehensive resource on the confrontation that became the first shooting war of the Cold War, the first limited conflict of the Atomic Age, and the war that led to a dramatic escalation of the national security state while foreshadowing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

EncyclopediasKorean War, 1950-1953