The author describes the causes, events and consequences of a conflict he calls "a world war in miniature". He addresses such questions as why the Truman administration decided to intrude militarily in Korea after merely protesting when Eastern Europe and China fell to the communists, why the United States risked causing World War III to save a repressive regime and why the Americans settled for something less than the resounding victory they had come to expect. In Whelan's analysis, the war had momentous repercussions for NATO, the UN, Russia, China and the arms race. And it provided the prologue to America's next war in Asia - Vietnam.
- ISBN10 0571146848
- ISBN13 9780571146840
- Publish Date 5 November 1990 (first published 17 May 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English