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The A to Z of the Korean War. By Paul M. Edwards. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-4917-8. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Pp. xxxix, 305. 840.00.
This "A to Z" guide to the Korean War by Paul M. Edwards is the paperback revision of The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary (2003) aimed at students and lay readers. In addition to short dictionary-style entries, the book contains a chronology, a brief introduction to Korea and the conflict, and a fairly robust bibliography of the well-known and more obscure works on the subject.
The chronology is a good start for new students. It quickly reveals that American interest in Korea did not begin in June 1950, but in the latter part of the nineteenth century (1882) with the Korean-American Treaty of Friendship and Commerce. The bibliography is also useful, though dated in that it only cites works...