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Titles marked with an asterisk (*) indicate materials currently held within the USFK Vessey Annex library’s collection. Access to these materials is restricted to authorized Army personnel assigned to the Camp Humphreys. For further information regarding availability, personnel are directed to proceed to Vessey Annex Library, Room 213.05.

Republic of Korea


The Koreans: Who They Are, What
They Want, Where Their Future Lies
Michael Breen


Korea: A Walk Through the Land of
Miracles*
Simon Winchester

The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese
Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910
Peter Duus

The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer

Korea's Place in the Sun
Bruce Cummings

Democratic People's
Republic of Korea

The Aquariums of Pyongyang*
Kang, Chol-Hwan

Over the Line: North Korea's
Negotiating Strategy*
Chuck Downs

North of the DMZ
Andrei Lankov

The Cleanest Race:
How North Korea See Themselves
 B.R. Myers


The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong,
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World*
Sung-Yoon Lee

Korean War

From Pusan to Panmunjom*
GEN (Ret.) Paik Sun-yup

The Coldest Winter:
America in the Korean War*
David Halberstam

This Kind of War*
T. R. Fehrenbach

A Short History of the Korean War
James L. Stokesbury

Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the
Korean War
Sergei Goncharov
      

Regional

Mao's Military Romanticism: China and
the Korean War, 1950-1953*
Shu Guang Zhang
      

The Partition of Korea after World War II
Jongsoo James Lee

The Party: The Secret World of China's
Communist Rulers
Richard McGregor