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In this episode, we have H.W. Brands on the podcast to discuss the

Korean War. He's authored over 30 books on American history and his works have

twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. This episode was first recorded for Dan Snow's history here, and Brands took Dan through the remarkable course of events that saw an immense civilian death toll and the destruction of virtually all of Korea's major cities.

They look at why this conflict continues to be somewhat overlooked.

It is known as the forgotten war and how it laid the ground works for the politics we see today. W. W. It's a great honor having on the podcast. Thank you for coming on.

My pleasure. It's a big anniversary of

the start of the Korean war just does it feel like that over in the US no in fact the

Korean war has often suffered from being called the forgotten war and it was forgotten because it came so soon after World War II

and it paled by comparison in the minds of Americans.

The scale of the war was much less, and of course the outcome was much

less satisfactory. And then as the war in Korea was winding down

and things of course, it never ended definitively. And so there was no particular moment

when people could say the war was over. There was an armistice and American forces remained

in Korea for years after. But by the time people were gaining historical perspective on the war

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