Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War

by Samuel Wells Jr and Samuel Wells Jr.

After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades.

Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231192746
• ISBN13: 9780231192743
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"