Australian War Memorial
The official history, Australia in the Korean War, 1950-53, is a good place to begin your reading. An official history is sponsored by a government and compiled by an official historian, usually working with full access to official records. This two-volume work by Robert O'Neill was published in the 1980s by the Australian War Memorial.
In addition to the official history, this reading list includes a range of useful references organised thematically.
Information Sheet 14 outlines sources on the Korean War in other Research Centre collections
Official history
O'Neill, Robert. Australia in the Korean War, 1950-53. Vol. 1., Strategy and diplomacy. Australian War Memorial and Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1981.
O'Neill, Robert. Australia in the Korean War, 1950-53. Vol. 2., Combat operations. Australian War Memorial and Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1985.
General
Alexander, Bevin. Korea: the lost war. London, Arrow Books, 1989.
Bartlett, Norman (ed). With the Australians in Korea. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1954.
Carew, Tim. The Korean War: the story of the fighting Commonwealth regiments. London, Pan, 1970.
Farrar-Hockley, Anthony. The British part in the Korean War. London, HMSO, 1990-1995.
Grey, Jeffrey. The Commonwealth armies and the Korean War :an alliance study. New York, St. Martin's Press, c1988.
Hickey, Michael. The Korean War: the West meets communism 1950-1953. London, John Murray, 1999.
Kirkland, Fredrick, Pears, M.B ( Maurice Betram). Korea remembered: the RAN, ARA and RAAF in the Korean war of 1950-1953. Doctrine Wing, Combined Arms Training and Development Centre, Georges Heights, N.S.W., 1998.
Matray, James I. Historical dictionary of the Korean War. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991
O'Ballance, Edgar. Korea, 1950-1953. London, Faber, 1969.
Odgers, George. Remembering Korea: Australians in the war of 1950-1953. Lansdowne Publishing, 2000.
Sandler, Stanley (ed.). The Korean War: an encyclopedia 1995. New York, Garland Pub. 1995
Summers, Harry G. Korean War almanac. New York, Facts on File, c1990.
Politics and strategy
Goncharov, Sergei N. Uncertain partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1993.
Grey, Jeffrey. 'A military alliance at work? Commonwealth forces in the Korean war'. Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no. 9, October 1986, pp. 39-46.
Kim Chull Baum and James I. Matray. Korea and the cold war: division, destruction, and disarmament. Regina Books, Claremont, California, 1993.
McCormack, Gavan. Cold war, hot war: An Australian perspective on the Korean War. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1983.
Stueck, William. The Korean War: an international history. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c1995.
Whelan, Richard. Drawing the line:the Korean War, 1950-1953. Boston, Little Brown, c1990.
Biography
Michael Schaller. Douglas MacArthur: the Far Eastern general. New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.
Air Operations
Grey, Jeffrey. The transformation in air power in the aftermath of the Korean war. Fairbairn, A.C.T., Air Power Studies Centre, 1993.
Jackson, Robert. Air war over Korea. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1973.
Lyman, B ( Bruce). The significance of air operations in Korea. Air Power Studies Centre, Royal Australian Air Force, Canberra, 1992.
Naval Operations
'British Commonwealth Naval Operations during the Korean War'. The Journal of the Royal United Studies Institute, vols 96-99, May 1951-February 1954.
'The Royal Australian Navy in the Korean War'. Wartime: official magazine of the Australian War Memorial,1, Nov 1997.
Lansdown, John R P. With the carriers in Korea :the Fleet Air Arm story, 1950-1953. Worcester, Square One Publications, 1992.
Unit Histories
Army Headquarters Training Command. The Battle of Maryang San: 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Korea 2-8 October 1951. Balmoral, N.S.W, Headquarters Training Command, Australian Army, c1991.
Atkinson, James J. The Kapyong Battalion: Medal Roll of Third Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Battle of Kapyong, 23-24 April, 1951. Military History Society, Sydney, 1977.
Breen, Bob. The battle of Kapyong: 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Korea 23-24 April 1951. Headquarters Training Command, Georges Heights, 1992.
Breen, Bob (ed.). The Battle of Maryang San: 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, Korea 2-8 October 1951. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1988.
Eaton, H B. Something extra: 28 Commonwealth Brigade, 1951 to 1974. Edinburgh: Pentland, c1993.
Fazio, Vince. H.M.A.S. "Condamine" in Korea, 1952-1953. Garden Island, N.S.W., Naval Historical Society of Australia, c.1990.
Gallaway, Jack. The last call of the bugle: the long road to Kapyong. Univerity of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld, 1994.
Odgers, George. Across the parallel: the Australian 77th Squadron with the United States Air Force in the Korean War. William Heinmann, Melbourne, 1952.
Wilson, David. Lion over Korea :77 fighter squadron, RAAF, 1950-53. Banner Books, Belconnen ,ACT, 1994.
Prisoners of War
White, W.L.( William Lindsay). The Captives of Korea: an unofficial white paper on the treatment of war prisoners: our treatment of theirs, their treatment of ours. Greenwood Press, Wesport, Conn., 1978.
Family History
Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. Preliminary nominal roll of Australian veterans of the Korean War. Canberra, AusInfo, 1999.
Smith, Neil C. Home by Christmas: the Australian army in Korea 1950-56: being a record of the Australian Army's involvement in the Korean War and listing those who served in Korea 1950-56. Mostly Unsung, Gardenvale, Vic, 1990.
Memoirs
Brown, Colin. Stalemate in Korea and how we coped, 1952-1953. Loftus [N.S.W.]. Australian Military History Publications, 1997.
Hunt, Dalma. Letters from the forgotten war - Korea 1952-53. Brisbane, Dalma Hunt, 1996.
O'Dowd, Ben. In Valiant Company: Korean war memoir. Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1995.
Pears, Maurie. Recollections of war: Maryang San, October 1951. Isle of Capri, Qld, Fred Kirkland Publication, 1995.
For Schools
Hooker, John. Korea: the forgotten war. Sydney, Time-Life Books, Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1989.
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