This fine collection of essays commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War makes a significant contribution to English-language scholarship on that pivotal conflict. The authors broaden the investigation of the war by addressing new questions or bringing new perspectives to old questions about important issues of alliance diplomacy, military strategy, public opinion, and historical memory.

In “An Alliance Forged in Blood: The American Occupation of Korea, the Korean War, and the US-South Korean Alliance,” William Stueck and Boram Yi supplement the extensive scholarship on U.S. strategic calculations regarding the Korean peninsula with a subtle, balanced examination of the sources of the mutual mistrust and disrespect that quickly took root between U.S. occupiers and newly liberated Koreans. Drawing on Korean-language sources and U.S. Army documents, they chart the evolution of attitudes that contributed to Washington's failure to extend a security guarantee to the Republic of Korea (ROK)—a guarantee that might...

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