Korean War

A Captivating Guide to Korean War History

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Duke Holm

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Explore how the Korean War started, the aftermath, and the events in between!

The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the United States, tells the tale of a conflict between two global superpowers and competing ideologies in a far-flung corner of the globe.

The reality is that the wheels of motion that drove the country to war in 1950 began turning long before American boots set foot on Korean soil. The heart of the conflict was a civil war between a population arbitrarily divided by colonization and the global geopolitics at the end of the Second World War.

Challenging the widely perpetuated Western narrative and getting to the core of the Korean conflict is no easy feat. From assumptions that the outbreak of war was a deliberate act of communist aggression, to the notion that Eisenhower and Truman's constant threats of atomic annihilation broke the Chinese and North Korean spirit and led to the signing of the armistice, everything needs to be dissected and reviewed on its own factual merit to fully understand the nature of the war.

This guide seeks to pull this narrative curtain and peek behind at the truth of the matter, tracing the history of the war back to the Japanese occupation and uncovering the root of Korean nationalism that stirred the nation into the frenzy of civil war in 1950.

Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:

• The Japanese Ascendency: 1910-1945
• A Korea Divided: The US Occupation of the South
• The Forging of the North Korean State
• First Blood: The Outbreak of War
• Strike Hard and Strike Fast: The US Retreat
• Bittersweet Victories: American Revival and China's Decision to Cross the Yalu
• How Do You Solve a Problem Like China?
• The Bloody Ceasefire and Looming Bomb
• The Legacy of the Korean War
• And more

Listen now to learn more about the Korean War.

©2017 Captivating History (P)2017 Captivating History

A book to be grabbed and discussed

Some people cannot really face up to facts and a different perspective than what has been thrown at us for decades. A major reason we are still in this mess. This author is an acknowledged scholar, but in today's world if his facts don't mesh with your own way of thinking than his writings get a "1". Sad that the world has come to this.

quik ez history

not the most entertaining or in depth but approachable. quick and easy listen. good narrative

The best book on Korean war

Most books on Korean war are written from the perspective of the United States and south Korea. North Korea is seen as the root of all evil who abruptly started the Korean war to spread communism over peace loving, democratic south Korean society. This overly simplified biased view of the Korean war has contributed to tremendous difficulty in bridging the gap between the two Koreas. Bruce The author brings us the historically accurate fair view of the conflict between the two Koreas. North Korea is as much a victim of the Korean war from relentless, merciless bombing from the US as is south Korea.

This historical War account and author’s personal

Excellent book that thoroughly explains the Korean War. The author really hits it out of the park with this historical war expertise.

Timely and Shocking

Korea is now a timely topic and, hopefully, some fair minded history readers will absorb some of the lessons of this provocative book. This is not a good guy, bad guys history, but an in your face account of the causes and effects of a war that really started long before the summer of 1950 and never ended. At times shocking in its details, it leads me to believe I actually knew nothing of this 'forgotten' war.

5 Stars Definitely

I got this book for my brother, he is a student of history and needed some references. It is a clearly explained Korean war book which should be grabbed.

A+

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Very interesting book!

I didn't complete it yet. However, I heard about the author, who is a specialist in this subject. I'll plan to listen to it eventually when I have enough time.
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Good One

By revealing the unbiased view of the Korean war, I hope this book allows more people to understand the post war policy of north Korea in escalating military spending and pursuit of nuclear bomb as a nuclear deterrent. North Korea is just as paranoid about another war in the Korean peninsula as is south Korea. To effectively denuclearize north Korea, US needs to completely denuclearize in south Korea and Japan as well and officially end the Korean war and sign the peace treaty.

Good book to understand

A very good explanation of the background to the war beginning in 1932 with the Japanese colonizing of Korea and Manchuria and how that contributed to the outbreak of the war, the brutal conduct of the war, and why the war still hasn't ended.