Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1943-1953
Original and deeply researched essays on American policy toward Korea by eleven American scholars, including a useful essay on manuscript sources in the National Archives bearing on the subject. The essay by Mark Paul entitled "Diplomacy Delayed: the Atomic Bomb and the Division of Korea, 1945" is particularly good.
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