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CHOICE Review

A readable and thoroughly researched narrative and analysis of the first major war fought by Americans overseas that failed to bring the gratification of total victory. It was also the US's first war fought in the nuclear age. Kaufman's book is a study in US foreign policy, not military history. The Korean War was a bitter civil conflict as well as an international struggle; for the US, as Kaufman reminds readers, Korea, not WW II, propelled our nation into the role of global power. Before Korea, US political and military commitments outside the Americas were limited to Europe and, perhaps, occupied Japan. After Korea, US foreign aid programs worldwide became primarily military rather than economic, and a network of military bases and treaties intimately bound the US to nearly 40 countries beyond the Western hemisphere. The book contains a splendid critical bibliography. College and university libraries.-J.C. Perry, Tufts University