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For younger readers

Feldman, Ruth Tenzer. The Korean War. Lerner, 2003. For readers in grades 6 to 12.

Gay, Kathlyn, and Martin Gay. Korean War. Twenty-First Century, 1996. For readers in grades 6 to 8.

McGowen, Tom. The Korean War. Franklin Watts, 1992. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Stein, Conrad. The Korean War: "The Forgotten War." Enslow, 1994. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Korean War

Alexander, Bevin. Korea: The First War We Lost. 3rd ed. Hippocrene, 2000. One of the classic histories of the conflict.

Brady, James. The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea. Orion, Reprint, St. Martin's, 1990. 2000. Moving memoirs of an American marine lieutenant.

Hastings, Max. The Korean War. Simon & Schuster, 1987. A military historian's chronicle based on first-hand accounts.

Knox, Donald. The Korean War: An Oral History. Harcourt, 1985, 1988. Hundreds of interviews with U.S. veterans provide a sense of what it was like to fight the war.

Merrill, John. Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War. Delaware, 1989. The causes of the war traced to Korean hostilities rather than great power conflict.

Spiller, Harry, ed. American POWs in Korea: Sixteen Personal Accounts. McFarland, 1998. Moving accounts.

Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of the Korean War. Morrow, 1988. An excellent general history.

Toland, John. In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953. Morrow, 1991, 1993. Readable military history.

Tucker, Spencer C.; Jinwung Kim; Michael R,. Nichols; and Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr., eds. The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-Clio, 2000. Substantial, comprehensive reference work.

Weintraub, Stanley. MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero. Free Press, 2000. Detailed account of the early stages of the war, critical of MacArthur.

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