Fearing the Worst - How Korea Transformed the Cold War

About the author

Samuel F. Wells, Jr, is a Cold War Fellow in the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the coauthor of The Ordeal of World Power: American Diplomacy Since 1900 (Little, Brown, 1975), and coeditor of Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789 (Columbia University Press, 1984), Limiting Nuclear Proliferation (Ballinger, 1985), and Strategic Defenses and Soviet-American Relations (Ballinger, 1987).

Summary

Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Samuel F. Wells, Samuel F. Wells
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2019
• EAN: 9780231192743
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19274-3
• No. of pages: 600
• Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Korea, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / United States, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, C 1945 To C 1960, 1950–1953 (Korean War period), Korean War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Korean War