{"product_id":"9781742624143","title":"The Korean War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world's most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCameron Forbes, acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eHellfire\u003c\/b\u003e, tells the story of the war and Australia's involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea's unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, \u003cb\u003eThe Korean War\u003c\/b\u003e reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical. In the tradition of Les Carlyon's \u003cb\u003eGallipoli\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Great War\u003c\/b\u003e and Paul Ham's \u003cb\u003eVietnam\u003c\/b\u003e, Cameron Forbes has written a masterpiece that will serve as the definitive history of Australia and the Korean War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of FAW National Literary Awards for Best Fiction 2010\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149962756336,"sku":"9781742624143","price":20.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781742624143_p0.jpg?v=1763703040","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781742624143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}