Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea - Tapa dura

Insightful, in-depth, and much needed, this book is required reading for anyone who hopes to understand the situation in Korea (Publishers Weekly)

Timely...an important contribution to Cold War scholarship (Paul French Literary Review)

An ambitious, engrossing, and often disturbing history of the conflict ... a superbly researched work that should be an essential tool in understanding the current crisis on the peninsula (Booklist)

Professor Jager has written a fresh, insightful study of the Korean War that begins in 1945 and follows the war's impact into the twenty-first century. This book is the best one-volume study of the war in all its cultural, political, and military aspects. (Allan R. Millett, author of They Came From the North: The Korean War, 1950-1951)

This is a magnificent book-deeply researched and written with real feeling and insight into the complex internal and external conditions that produced a brutal war and perpetuated Korea's division to the present day. (William Stueck, author of The Korean War: An International History)

Jager . . . skillfully covers international affairs, politics, and society in a first-rate comprehensive presentation of all the big issues facing North and South Korea. (Ezra F Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University co-editor, Deng and the Transformation of China.)

The author's judicious use of new material in several languages as well as her balanced way of presentation make this book an authoritative and accessible history of the Korean peninsula since the Second World (Akira Iriye, Harvard University)

Sheila Miyoshi Jager's Brothers at War is a timely reminder of the significance of arguably the most important unfinished business of the Cold War. (Major General Julian Thompson, KCL)

A stark reminder that... the Korean War is far from over... This gripping book at last gives the big picture and the full story of a tragic and terrible conflict. (Aidan Foster-Carter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK)

Written in lucid narrative prose with an eye for the telling detail and compelling human story (Carter J. Eckhart, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University)