| The Korea Knot: A Military-Political History Subjects: Korean War 1950–1953; Korean -- Politics and government -- 1945–1948; Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1948–1960; Beginning with a brief account of the troubled historical past of this small country that had long known invasion and the threat of invasion, Carl Berger sets the stage for Korea's catastrophic hour resulting from World War II--the division of a once-united nation into two separate countries. It is this division, he maintains, that holds the key to the Korean tragedy. |