Evii. The Korean War

1695. Appleman, Roy E. South to the Naktong, north to the Yalu; June–November 1950. Washington, Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1961. xxiv, 813 p. illus. (United States Army in the Korean War, 1) 60–60043 DS918.U5246 vol. 1

Bibliographical footnotes.

The first volume in the U.S. Army’s official history, United States Army in the Korean War. The activities of other branches of the military service in Korea are described in The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953 (New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce [1961] 774 p.), by Robert F. Futrell; James A. Field’s History of United States Naval Operations: Korea (Washington [U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1962. 499 p.); and the first four volumes of a proposed five-volume Marine Corps publication, U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953 (Washington, Historical Branch, G-3, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1954 [i.e. 1955]–62).

1696. Leckie, Robert. Conflict; the history of the Korean War, 1950–53. New York, Putnam [1962] 448 p. illus. 62–10975 DS918.L36. Bibliography: p. 431–434.

An account of the Korean War for the general reader. The author traces the course of the war and provides detailed descriptions of the battles and operations as well as a discussion of the strategy involved. A more scholarly history of the war is Korea: The Limited War (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1964. 511 p.), by David Rees, a British historian. Rees discusses the development of American policy toward Korea, amply covers the military operations, and deals with the British response to the war. In Pork Chop Hill; the American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953 (New York, Morrow, 1956. 315 p.), Samuel L. A. Marshall analyzes in detail an encounter in which the Americans won an important victory.

1697. Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur controversy and the Korean War. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1959. 311 p. illus. 59–12976 DS919.S62

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 281–297). Bibliography: p. 298–306.

A major issue during the early part of the Korean War was the policy disagreement between President Truman and General MacArthur which subsequently led to MacArthur’s dismissal from all of his commands. Spanier traces the origins of the policy differences between the two men and shows how and why these differences developed to the point at which Truman had no alternative but to relieve MacArthur of his duties. The author, in addition, uses the controversy to analyze the problem of civil-military relations during a limited war. A briefer interpretation of the disagreement between Truman and MacArthur is Trumbull Higgins’ Korea and the Fall of MacArthur; a Précis in Limited War (New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. 229 p.).