The Dawn of War in South Korea (1947¿1950)
Jo, Kyu-Hyun This book offers an analytical account of the April Third Massacre in Korea, a bloody confrontation between supporters of the Syngman Rhee Administration and those suspected (largely incorrectly) of being Communists, or members of the South Korean Workers' Party¿the second largest Communist Party after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. As a result, some 80, 000 villagers, fishermen, and policemen were killed. The book, drawing fr...