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Kim, Chong Ik & Han-Kyo –
Korea and the Politics of Imperialism
(University of California Press, 1967)

Kinkead, Eugene –
Why They Collaborated
(Longman, 1960)

Knox, Donald –
The Korean War, an Oral History: Pusan to Chosin
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985)

Kohn, Richard H. & Harahan, Joseph P. – (ed.)
Air Superiority in World War II and Korea
(USAF Warrior Studies, 1983)

Khrushchev, Nikita –
Khrushchev Remembers
(Little, Brown, 1971)

Langley, Michael –
Inchon: MacArthur’s Last Triumph
(Batsford, 1979)

Linklater, Eric –
Our Men in Korea
(HMSO, 1954)

Lowe, Peter –
The Origins of the Korean War
(Longman, 1986)

MacArthur, Douglas A. –
Reminiscences
(Heinemann, 1965)

McGuire, F. R. –
Canada’s Army in Korea
(Historical Section, General Staff, Army Headquarters, Ottawa, 1956)

McLellan, David S. –
Dean Acheson: The State Department Years
(Dodd Mead, 1976)

Manchester, William –
MacArthur: American Caesar
(Hutchinson, 1978)

Marshall, S. L. A. –
The River and the Gauntlet
(Morrow, 1953)
Pork Chop Hill
(Morrow, 1952)

Melady, John –
Korea: Canada’s Forgotten War
(Macmillan Canada, 1983)

Mitchell, Colin –
Having Been a Soldier
(Hamish Hamilton, 1969)

Momyer, General William W. –
Air Power in Three Wars
(Ayre, 1979)

Montross, Lynn & Canzona, Nicholas A. –
US Marine Operations In Korea, 1950–53
(Vols. I–V) (Historical Branch US Marine Corps, Washington, 1957)

Morgan, Kenneth –
Labour in Power
(Oxford University Press, 1984)

Panikkar, Kavalam M. –
In Two Chinas: Memoirs of a Diplomat
(Allen & Unwin, 1955)

Pogue, Forrest –
George C. Marshall
(3 vols.) (Viking, 1963–73)

Porter, Brian –
Britain and the Rise of Communist China, 1945–54
(Oxford University Press, 1967)

Rees, David –
Korea: The Limited War
(Hamish Hamilton, 1964) (ed.)
The Korean War: History and Tactics
(Orbis, 1984)

Reeves, Thomas C. –
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy
(Stein & Day, 1982)

Ridgway, Matthew B. –
The Korean War
(Doubleday, 1967)

Rovere, Richard H. & Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jnr. –
The MacArthur Controversy and American Foreign Policy
(Noonday Press, 1965)

Russ, Martin –
The Last Parallel
(Signet, 1957)

Scalpino, Robert A. –
North Korea Today
(Praeger New York, 1963)

Schaller, Michael –
The American Occupation of Japan
(Oxford University Press, 1985)

Schnabel, James F. & Watson, Robert J. –
History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Vol. Ill, pt. II) (Historical Division, Joint Secretariat, 1979)
The US Army in the Korean War
(Vols. I & II), (Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, 1972, 1984)

Stone, Isidor F. –
The Hidden History of the Korean War
(Monthly Review Press, 1952)

Stueck, William –
The Road to Confrontation: US Policy Towards China and Korea
(University of North Carolina Press, 1981)

Suk, Lee Hyung – (ed.)
History of UN Forces in the Korean War
(5 vols.) (Korean Ministry of National Defence, 1973)

Taylor, Maxwell D. –
Swords and Plowshares
(Norton, 1972)

Thompson, Reginald –
Cry Korea
(Macdonald, 1951)

Thorne, Christopher –
Allies of a Kind
(Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
The Issue of War
(Oxford University Press, 1985)

Thornton, Captain John –
Believed to be Alive
(Ericksson, 1981)

Truman, Harry S. –
Years of Trial and Hope
(Doubleday, 1956)

Vatcher, William H. –
Panmunjom
(Atlantic Books, 1958)

Vorhees, Melvin B. –
Korean Tales
(Secker & Warburg, 1953)

Watt, D. C. –
Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain’s Place
(Cambridge University Press, 1984)

Whiting, Allen –
China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War
(University of California Press, 1970)

Whitney, Courtney –
MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History
(Knopf, 1956)

Whitson, William W. –
The Chinese High Command
(Macmillan, 1973)

Willoughby Charles. A. & Chamberlain, John –
MacArthur, 1941–1951
(McGraw-Hill, 1968)

Young, Kenneth –
Negotiating with the Chinese Communists: The United States Experience, 1953–1967
(McGraw-Hill, 1968)

Notes and references

Prologue: Task Force Smith

1
Unless otherwise attributed, all direct quotations in the story of Task Force Smith are taken from the author’s interviews with survivors: Lt.-Col. George Masters; Major Floyd Martain; Corporal Ezra Burke; Corporal Robert Fountain; Lt. Carl Bernard.

2
Donald Knox,
The Korean War
, An Oral History, p. 21 (Publication details of all titles cited in the notes are given in the bibliography)

3
Ibid
., p. 23

1. Origins of a Tragedy

1
The narrative of the arrival of the American advance party is based on an author interview with one of the participants, Lt. Ferris Miller USN, 12.10.85

2
Dennett quoted Bruce Cumings,
Origins of the Korean War
, p. 103

3
3.10.43, quoted Cumings,
op. cit
., p. 114

4
Ibid.

5
Miller,
loc. cit
.

6
Cumings
op. cit
., pp. 138–9

7
US National Archive, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945 6: 1049–53

8
Miller
loc. cit
.

9
Edgar Kennedy,
Mission to Korea
, p. 14

10
FRUS
op. cit
., 6: 1049–53

11
FRUS 1945 6: 1070–71

12
FRUS 1945 6: 1061–1065, Benninghoff to Secretary of State

13
FRUS 1945 6: 1023

14
Author interview Roger Makins (Lord Sherfield) 10.1.86

15
FRUS 1945 6: 1122–24

16
History of the United States Armed Forces in Korea
, vol. II, chap. I, p. 11

17
FRUS 1945 6: 1133–34

18
FRUS 1945 5: 1144–48

19
HUSAFIK
op. cit
. vol. III, ch. IV, pt. 1, p. 1

20
Author interview General Paek Sun Yup, October 1985

21
Author interview Minh Pyong Kyu, October 1985

22
Author interview Kap Chong Chi, October 1985

23
Miller loc. cit.

2. Invasion

1
Public Record Office FO371/84076

2
US National Archive Defense Records OPS 091, RG319 G-3, Box 121

3
Nikita Khrushchev,
Khrushchev Remembers
, p. 367

4
Allan Whiting,
China Crosses the Yalu
, p. 77

5
William Manchester,
MacArthur: American Caesar
, p. 543

3. The West’s Riposte

1
Narrative based upon an author interview with Han Pyo Wook, October 1985

2
Christopher Mayhew, conversation with the author, May 1985

3
Dean Acheson,
Present at the Creation
, p. 248

4
US National Archive, Record of JCS Action Relative to Korea, pp. 12–13

5
Truman Papers PSF, quoted Rosemary Foot,
The Wrong War
, p. 59

6
Douglas MacArthur,
Reminiscences
, p. 331

7
New York
Times, 9.7.50

8
Author interview with Lord Franks, August 1985

9
Ibid
.

10
Manchester
op. cit
., p. 548

11
Ibid
., p. 4

12
Author interview with Colonel Fred Ladd, October 1985

13
Ibid
.

14
Ibid
.

15
Author interview Lt.-Col. George Masters, April 1985

16
Ladd
loc. cit
.

17
Cabinet Records CAB128, 27.7.50, Public Record Office

18
Kenneth Morgan,
Labour in Power
, p. 280

19
PRO: CAB128/17

20
Franks
loc. cit
.

21
PRO: CAB128/17

22
Some British State papers consulted by the author are not yet in the Public Record Office, and have thus not been given catalogue numbers. References are thus necessarily omitted from the text in certain cases, notably in this chapter.