The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable, and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions, and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of "Hellfire," tells the story of the war and Australia s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing, "The Korean War" reveals the conflict on all its levels human, military, and geopolitical."