Korea

Where the American Century Began

By: Michael Pembroke

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Hardcover | 14 August 2018

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Unless you know the history, you cannot see the future. In late 1950, the US-led invasion of North Korea failed, and for the next three years ,the United States relentlessly bombed the North's cities, towns and villages. Pyongyang has been determined to develop a credible nuclear deterrent ever since.

The Korean War was the first of America's unsuccessful military interventions post-World War II and its first modern conflict with China. It established the pattern for the next sixty years and marked the true beginning of the American century - opening the door to ever-increasing defense expenditure and creating the dangerous and festering geopolitical sore that exists in Northeast Asia today.

Michael Pembroke tells the story of the Korean peninsula with compassion for the people of the North and South, understanding for the soldiers caught between the bitter winter and an implacable enemy, and concern about the past and present role of the United States.

Industry Reviews

`This richly informed study amply establishes that American global militarism has its origin in the Korean conflict... The lessons are all too pertinent in today's toxic political climate.' -- Noam Chomsky `This is a very important book, an eye-opening one, and a wise one. I read it in one go - fascinated, educated, appalled, amazed and gripped... It lifts the lid on so many things.' -- A. C. Grayling `No book could be more timely or with warnings more necessary to heed, if history is not to be repeated.' -- Geoffrey Robertson QC, author of Crimes Against Humanity `Michael Pembroke's Korea: Where the American Century Began is a brilliant book, meticulously researched, comprehensive and extremely timely. It opens a new dimension of America's continuing war against anything different and esoteric and explains why, after seven decades...the Korean drama remains unsolved.' -- Dr Leonid Petrov, Australian National University `Compulsory material for anyone who wonders how the situation on the Korean peninsula deteriorated to the point it has today.' -- Richard Broinowski, former Australian Ambassador to South Korea

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