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Canada and the Korean War

Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict

edited by Andrew Burtch & Tim Cook

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2024
Category
Canada, Korea, Korean War
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774870535
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $45.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774868631
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $45.00

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Korea was the first hot war of the Cold War. It was also Canada’s most significant military engagement of the twentieth century following the two world wars. Canada and the Korean War gathers leading scholars to explore the key themes and battles of a seminal yet understudied conflict.

 

Canada had little stake and less interest in Korea before 1950, but the risk the conflict posed to the fragile postwar order was deemed too great for the country to stand on the sidelines. Alongside their allies, more than 30,000 Canadian service personnel fought a determined and skilled enemy. The armistice that ended the war left Korea devastated and divided, and it remains a dangerous hotspot today.

 

This timely collection synthesizes Canadian and international perspectives on a conflict that shaped not only the Canadian armed forces but also the evolving Canada-Korea relationship. In the process, Canada and the Korean War sheds light on how the war has been framed and reframed in public memory.

About the authors

Andrew Burtch is the Post-1945 Historian at the Canadian War Museum, and an adjunct research professor in Carleton University’s history department.

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TIM COOK is the Great War historian at the Canadian War Museum, as well as an adjunct professor at Carleton University. He is the author of five other books, including Shock Troops, which won the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2009. He was also awarded the Ottawa Book Award and the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End. Cook lives in Ottawa with his family.

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