List of books about the Korean War

This is a list of books about the Korean War.

Contents 1 Campaigns and battles 2 Combat studies 2.1 Air combat 2.2 Ground combat 2.3 Intelligence gathering 2.4 Logistics 2.5 Naval combat 2.6 Psychological warfare 2.7 Strategy 2.8 Unit cohesion 3 Cultural impact 4 Encyclopedia and reference work 5 Leaders 6 Official history 6.1 British Commonwealth 6.2 China 6.3 North Korea 6.4 South Korea 6.5 United States 7 Oral history, recollections and memoirs 8 Origins, politics, diplomacy 9 Overview 9.1 General 9.2 British Commonwealth 9.3 China 9.4 South Korea 9.5 United States 10 Prisoners of war 11 Unit history

Campaigns and battles

• Appleman, Roy (1992), South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 0160359589, http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm 
• Appleman, Roy (1987), East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950, 2, College Station, TX: Texas A and M University Military History Series, ISBN 0890962839 
• Appleman, Roy (1989), Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur, 11, College Station, TX: Texas A and M University Military History Series,, ISBN 9781603441285 
• Appleman, Roy (1990), Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950, 14, College Station, TX: Texas A and M University Military History Series, ISBN 0890963959 
• Appleman, Roy (1990), Ridgway Duels for Korea, 18, College Station, TX: Texas A and M University Military History Series, ISBN 0890964327 
• Hamburger, Kenneth E. (2003), Leadership in the Crucible : The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels & Chipyong-ni, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 1585442321 
• Hinshaw, Arned Lee (1989), Heartbreak Ridge, New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, ISBN 0275932176 
• Marshall, S.L.A. (1982), The River and the Gauntlet: Defeat of the Eighth Army by the Chinese Communist forces, November, 1950, in the Battle of the Chongchon River, Korea, Des Moines, IA: Time-Life Books, ISBN 0809438453 
• Russ, Martin. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950, Penguin, 2000, 464 pages, ISBN 0-14-029259-4
• Salmon, Andrew (2009), To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, London, UK: Aurum Press, ISBN 9781845134082 

Combat studies

Air combat

• Bruning, John R. (2000), Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea, Riverside, NJ: Protomac Books Inc., ISBN 1574888412 
• Hallion, Richard P. The Naval Air War in Korea (1986).
• Werrell, Kenneth P. (2005), Sabres over MiG Alley, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institution Press, ISBN 1591149339 
• Warrell, Kenneth P. "Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korean War." Journal of Military History 72.2 (2008): 451–76. Print.
• Zhang, Xiao Ming (2004), Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 1585442011 

Ground combat

• Flanagan, E.M. Jr., Airborne – A Combat History Of American Airborne Forces, The Random House Publishing Group, 2002
• Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. U. Press of Kansas, 2003. 472 pp.
• Mahoney, Kevin (2001), Formidable Enemies: The North Korean and Chinese Soldier in the Korean War, Novato, CA: Presidio Press, ISBN 9780891417385 
• Marshall, S.L.A. (1988), Infantry Operations and Weapon Usage in Korea, London, UK: Greenhill Books, ISBN 0947898883 
• McMichael, Scott R. (1987), "Chapter 2: The Chinese Communist Forces in Korea (part 1, part 2)", A Historical Perspective on Light Infantry (Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Combined Arms Center), ISSN 0887-235X 
• US IX Corps (1951), Enemy Tactics, Techniques and Doctrine Korea 1951, Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Combined Arms Center, http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/docrepository/enemy_tactics_techniques_doctrine_intelligence_studies_1951.pdf, retrieved 2010-07-27 

Intelligence gathering

• Roe, Patrick C. (2000), The Dragon Strikes, Novato, CA: Presidio, ISBN 0891417036 

Logistics

• Huston, James Alvin (1989), Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice : U.S. Army Logistics in the Korean War, Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, ISBN 0941664872 
• Shrader, Charles R. (1995), Communist Logistics in the Korean War, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313295093 

Naval combat

• Marolda, Edward (2007), The US Navy in the Korean War, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, ISBN 9781591144878 

Psychological warfare

• Pease, Stephen E. (1992), Psywar: Psychological Warfare in Korea, 1950-1953, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, ISBN 0811725928 

Strategy

• Malkasian, Carter (2002), A History of Modern Wars of Attrition, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, ISBN 0275973794 
• Ohn, Chang-Il. "The Korean War of 1950–1953: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Strategy." Revue Internationale D'histoire Militaire 70 (1988): 211–41. Print.
• Rees, David (1964). Korea: The Limited War. New York: St Martin's. OCLC 1078693. 

Unit cohesion

• George, Alexander L. (1967), The Chinese Communist Army in Action: The War and its Aftermath, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, OCLC 284111 

Cultural impact

• West, Philip; Levine, Steven I.; Hiltz, Jackie (1998), America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 0765602377 
• Zhang, Hong (2002), The Making of Urban Chinese Images of the United States, 1945-1953, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313310017 

Encyclopedia and reference work

• Brune, Lester and Robin Higham, eds., The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research (Greenwood Press, 1994)
• Ecker, Richard E. (2005), Korean Battle Chronology: Unit-by-Unit United States Casualty Figures and Medal of Honor Citations, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, ISBN 0786419806 
• Edwards, Paul M. The A to Z of the Korean War. The Scarecrow Press, 2005. 307 pp.
• Edwards, Paul M. The Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict : A Dictionary of Hills, Outposts and other Sites of Military Action. McFarland & Co., 2006. 267 pp.
• Edwards, Paul M. The Korean War: a Historical Dictionary. The Scarecrow Press, 2003. 367 pp.
• Edwards, Paul M. Korean War Almanac (2006)
• (Chinese) Hu, Guang Zheng (胡光正); Ma, Shan Ying (马善营) (1987), Chinese People's Volunteer Army Order of Battle (中国人民志愿军序列), Beijing: Chinese People's Liberation Army Publishing House, OCLC 298945765 
• Matray, James I. (ed.) Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Greenwood Press, 1991. 626 pp.
• Varhola, Michael J. (2000), Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950–1953, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, ISBN 9781882810444 
• Millett, Allan R, "A Reader's Guide To The Korean War" Journal of Military History (1997) Vol. 61 No. 3; p. 583+ full text in JSTOR; free online revised version
• Millett, Allan R. "The Korean War: A 50 Year Critical Historiography," Journal of Strategic Studies 24 (March 2001), pp. 188–224. full text in Ingenta and Ebsco
• Millett, Allan R. (2007), The Korean War: The Essential Bibliography, Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, ISBN 9781574889765 
• Sandler, Stanley ed., The Korean War: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1995)
• Summers, Harry G. Korean War Almanac (1990)

Leaders

• Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story. Knopf. ISBN 0679422714. 
• James, D. Clayton The Years of MacArthur: Triumph and Disaster, 1945–1964 (1985), scholarly biography of MacArthur
• James, D. Clayton with Anne Sharp Wells, Refighting the Last War: Command and Crises in Korea, 1950–1953 (1993)
• Leitich, Keith. Shapers of the Great Debate on the Korean War: A Biographical Dictionary (2006) covers Americans only

Official history

British Commonwealth

• Farrar-Hockley, Anthony (1990), Official History: The British Part in the Korean War, Volume I, II, London, England: HMSO, ISBN 0116309539 
• McGibbon, Ian (1996), New Zealand and the Korean War. Combat Operations, Volume II, Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195583434 
• O'Neil, Robert, Australia in the Korean War 1950–53 (2 vols). Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1981 and 1985.
• Wood, Herbert Fairlie (1966), Official History of the Canadian Army in Korea: Strange Battleground, Ottawa, Canada: Queen's Printer, OCLC 4199207 

China

• (Chinese) Chinese Military Science Academy (2000), History of War to Resist America and Aid Korea (抗美援朝战争史), Volume I, II, III, Beijing: Chinese Military Science Academy Publishing House, ISBN 7801373901 

North Korea

• (Chinese) DPRK Science Academy History Research Division (1961), The Joseon People's History of the Justice War for Fatherland Liberation (朝鲜人民正义的祖国解放战争史), Pyongyang: DPRK Foreign Language Publishing House 

South Korea

• Chae, Han Kook; Chung, Suk Kyun; Yang, Yong Cho (2001), Yang, Hee Wan; Lim, Won Hyok; Sims, Thomas Lee et al., eds., The Korean War, Volume I, II, III, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 9780803277953 

United States

• Appleman, Roy (1992), South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 0160359589, http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm 
• Field Jr., James A. History of United States Naval Operations: Korea, University Press of the Pacific, 2001, ISBN 0-89875-675-8. official US Navy history
• Futrell, Robert F. The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953, rev. ed. (Office of the Chief of Air Force History, 1983), official US Air Force history
• Hermes, Walter G. (1992), Truce Tent and Fighting Front, Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 0160359570, http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/truce/fm.htm 
• Montross, Lynn et al., History of US Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953, 5 vols. (Washington: Historical Branch, G-3, Headquarters, Marine Corps, 1954–72)
• Mossman, Billy C. (1990), Ebb and Flow: November 1950-July 1951, United States Army in the Korean War, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 9781410224705, http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/ebb/fm.htm 
• Schnabel, James F. (1992), Policy and Direction: The First Year., U.S. Army in the Korean War, Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U. S. Army, ISBN 0160359554, http://www.history.army.mil/books/p&d.htm 

Oral history, recollections and memoirs

• Bin Yu and Xiaobing Li, eds. Mao's Generals Remember Korea, University Press of Kansas, 2001, hardcover 328 pages, ISBN 0-7006-1095-2
• Clark, Mark Wayne (1954), From the Danube to the Yalu, New York, NY: Harper, OCLC 178967 
• Bowers, William T. (2008), The Line: Combat in Korea, January - February 1951, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 9780813125084 
• Bowers, William T. (2010), Striking Back: Combat in Korea, March - April 1951, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 9780813125640 
• Matthew B. Ridgway, The Korean War (1967).
• Millett, Allan R. Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945–1953. Brassey's, 2003. 310 pp.
• Toland, John. In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 (1991)
• Paik, Sun Yup (1992), From Pusan to Panmunjom, Riverside, NJ: Brassey Inc, ISBN 0028810023 
• Spurr, Russell (1988), Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea 1950-51, New York, NY: Newmarket Press, ISBN 1557040087 
• Watson, Brent Byron. Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. 2002. 256 pp.
• (Chinese) Wu, Ru Lin (吴瑞林) (1995), 42nd Corps During the War to Resist America and Aid Korea (抗美援朝中的第42军), Beijing: Gold Wall Press, ISBN 7800841189 

Origins, politics, diplomacy

• Barnouin, Barbara; Yu, Changgeng (2006). Zhou Enlai: A Political Life. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. ISBN 962-996-280-2. 
• Becker, Jasper (2005). Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019517044X. 
• Carpenter, William M. "The Korean War: A Strategic Perspective Thirty Years Later." Comparative Strategy 2.4 (1980): 335–53. Print.
• Casey, Steven. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
• Chen, Jian (1994). China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-10025-0. 
• Cumings, Bruce (1981). "3, 4". Origins of the Korean War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 89-7696-612-0. 
• Cumings, Bruce (1997). Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. WW Norton & Company. ISBN 0393316815. 
• Foot, Rosemary, "Making Known the Unknown War: Policy Analysis of the Korean Conflict in the Last Decade," Diplomatic History 15 (Summer 1991): 411–31, in JSTOR
• Foot, Rosemary. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. Print.
• Foot, Rosemary (1990), A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801424135 
• Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis; and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War, Stanford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8047-2521-7, diplomatic
• Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. Temple University Press, 1986, focus is on Washington
• Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean Conflict (Greenwood Press, 1999).
• Kim, Yǒng-jin (1973). Major Powers and Korea. Silver Spring, MD: Research Institute on Korean Affairs. OCLC 251811671. 
• Matray, James. "Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision in Korea," Journal of American History 66 (September, 1979), 314–33. in JSTOR
• Millett, Allan R. The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning vol 1 (2005)ISBN 0-7006-1393-5, origins
• Oliver, Robert T. Why War Came in Korea. New York: Fordham UP, 1950. Print.
• Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War (1959).
• Stueck, William. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton U. Press, 2002. 285 pp.
• Stueck, Jr., William J. The Korean War: An International History (Princeton University Press, 1995), diplomatic
• Zhang, Shu Guang (1992), Deterrence and Strategic Culture: Chinese-American Confrontations, 1949-1958, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801427517 

Overview

General

• Blair, Clay (1987), The Forgotten War, New York, NY: Times Books, ISBN 0812916700 
• Goulden, Joseph C (1983). Korea: The Untold Story of the War. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 17. ISBN 0070235805. 
• Halberstam, David (2007), The Coldest Winter – America and the Korean War, New York, NY: Hyperion, ISBN 9781401300524 
• Hastings, Max. The Korean War (1987). British perspective
• Hickey, Michael, The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, 1950–1953 (London: John Murray, 1999) ISBN 0-7195-5559-0 ISBN 9780719555596
• MacDonald, Callum A. (1986). Korea: The War Before Vietnam. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0029196213. 
• Malkasian, Carter (2001). The Korean War, 1950–1953. Essential Histories. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1579583644. 
• Millett, Allan R. (2010), The War for Korea, 1950-1951: They Came From the North, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, ISBN 9780700617098 
• O'Ballance, Edgar. Korea: 1950–1953. Hamden: Archon, 1969. Print.
• Stein, R. Conrad (1994). The Korean War: "The Forgotten War". Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers. ISBN 0894905260. 
• Stokesbury, James L (1990). A Short History of the Korean War. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0688095135. 
• Srivastava, M. P. The Korean Conflict: Search for Unification. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India, 1982. Print.

British Commonwealth

• Bercuson, David J. (1999), Blood on the Hills: the Canadian Army in the Korean War, Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0802009808 
• Johnston, William (2003), A War of Patrols: Canadian Army Operations in Korea, Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0774810084 

China

• (Chinese) Xue, Yan (徐焰) (1990), First Confrontation: Reviews and Reflections on the History of War to Resist America and Aid Korea (第一次较量：抗美援朝战争的历史回顾与反思), Beijing: Chinese Radio and Television Publishing House, ISBN 7504305421 
• Zhang, Shu Guang (1995), Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-1953, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, ISBN 0700607234 

South Korea

United States

• Alexander, Bevin R. (1986), Korea: The First War We Lost, New York, NY: Hippocrene Books, Inc, ISBN 9780870521355 
• Fehrenbach, T.R. (2001), This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History – Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Potomac Books Inc., ISBN 978-1-57488-334-3 

Prisoners of war

• Bassett, Richard M. And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American POW in North Korea. Kent State U. Press, 2002. 117 pp.
• Biderman, Albert D. (1963), March to Calumny: The Story of American POW's in Korea, New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, OCLC 4956442 
• Cunningham, Cyril (2000), No Mercy, No Leniency: Communist Mistreatment of British Prisoners of War in Korea, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, ISBN 0850527678 
• Heo, Man-ho, "North Korea's Continued Detention of South Korean POWs since the Korean and Vietnam Wars" Korea Journal of Defense Analysis (2002) Vol. XIV No. 2; pp. 141–165; http://kida.re.kr/eng/publication/pdf/08-Heo.PDF
• Kinkhead, Eugene (1981), In Every War But One, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313231133 
• Lech, Raymond B. (2000), Broken Soldiers, Chicago, IL: University of Illinois, ISBN 0252025415 

Unit history

• Bowers, William T.; Hammong, William M.; MacGarrigle, George L. (2005), Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea, Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, ISBN 978-1410224675 
• Hayhurst, Fred (2001), Green Berets in Korea: The Story of 41 Independent Commando – Royal Marines, New York, NY: Vanguard Press, ISBN 1903489121 
• (Chinese) Guo, Bao Heng (郭宝恒); Hu, Zhi Yuan (胡支援) (1996), Gallop Across the Han River: 42nd Corps in Korea (驰骋汉江南北 : 四十二军在朝鲜), Shenyang, China: Liaoning People's Publishing House, ISBN 7205035066 
• (Chinese) Jiang, Yong Hui (江拥輝) (1989), 38th Corps in Korea (三十八军在朝鲜), Shenyang, China: Liaoning People's Publishing House, ISBN 7205006309 
• Villahermosa, Gilberto N. (2009), Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953, Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/korea/65Inf_Korea/index.html, retrieved 2010-11-09 
• (Chinese) Wu, Xin Quan (吳信泉); Wang, Zhao Yun (王照运) (1996), 1000 Days on the Korean Battlefield: 39th Corps in Korea (朝鲜战场1000天 ： 三十九军在朝鲜), Shenyang, China: Liaoning People's Publishing House, ISBN 720503504X