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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 is a non-fiction narrative history of the Korean War written by Charles J. Hanley and published in August 2020 by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books Group, part of the Hachette Book Group. The book tells the story of the war through the experiences of 20 individuals who lived ...
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWs. St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-28684-8. Cunningham, Cyril (2000), No Mercy, No Leniency: Communist Mistreatment of British Prisoners of War in Korea, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, ISBN 0-85052-767-8; Heo, Man-ho (2002).
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III. Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03995-7. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War II (3rd revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWs is a 2002 military history book by Lewis H. Carlson. Using first-hand testimonies by repatriated prisoners of war of their experiences in captivity in Korea, the book demystifies the general perception in the United States that Korean War POWs had been "brainwashed" by their captors, and had betrayed their country.
The Korean War was the first armed confrontation of the Cold War and set the standard for many later conflicts. It created the idea of a limited war , where the two superpowers would fight in another country, forcing the people in that nation to suffer the bulk of the destruction and death involved in a war between such large nations.
Despite its underdeveloped economy, Chinese military spending was the world's fourth largest globally for most of the war after that of the US, the Soviet Union, and the UK; however, by 1953, with the winding down of the Korean War and the escalation of the First Indochina War, French spending also surpassed Chinese spending by about a third.
The History of the UN Forces in the Korean War-5 (UNITED STATES) – ROK Ministry of National Defense Institute for Military History, 1976 (PDF) The History of the UN Forces in the Korean War-6 (SUMMARY) – ROK Ministry of National Defense Institute for Military History, 1977 (E-BOOK) Archived 2023-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
The History of the UN Forces in the Korean War – 5 (United States) – ROK Ministry of National Defense Institute for Military History, 1976 (PDF) The History of the UN Forces in the Korean War – 6 (Summary) – ROK Ministry of National Defense Institute for Military History, 1977 (E-Book) Archived 2023-07-09 at the Wayback Machine