Links from the show:

* A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955

* China Marine by Eugene Sledge

* China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive

* Attack at Chosin: The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea

About my guest:

Ronald Spector is an award-winning scholar of modern military history and has taught at the National War College and the U.S. Army War College. He is currently working on a study of the "hot wars" of the Asian Cold War in China, Indochina, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines during 1949-54. He has taught as a visiting professor in universities around the world. 

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