The words of President Truman, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower, and others, reporter's stories, and letters from soldiers shed light on the war, which began as a civil war between Korean nationalists and escalated into a struggle between the U. S. and Communist China, throwing America into the first major showdown of the Cold War. | The Korean War by Karl E Valois, Paperback | Indigo Chapters