Panmunjom: The Story of the Korean Military Armistice Negotiations (William H Vatcher)

William H. Vatcher, Panmunjom: The Story of the Korean Military Armistice Negotiations. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, [1958]

Hard cover, dustwrapper, original cloth, 322 pages, plates. Dustwrapper tatty, endpapers and edges of textblock foxed, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.

Scarce.

Panmunjom represents an Impasse in the Korean Warin itself a physical manifestation of the entire Cold War. When the Russians suggested in 1951 that the struggle in Korea could be settled on a peaceable basis. the hopes of the world were brightened. But the Communists, employing the strategy of give-and-take-away, suspended these hopes between peace and war for over two year.
This carefully documented book is a study of the events that transpired during that trying period by a man who attended the Korean armistice conference as an official participant.
In this book Professor Vatcher demonstrates how the struggle for a cease-fire developed, the forces at work impeding its realization, and the results of the final agreement. He has approached the negotiations chronologicallynot so much in the perspective of their world setting, nor specifically as a problem of the United Nations, but more especially as to what actually transpired inside the truce tent and the benefits that can be derived from these experiences.
This volume incorporates pertinent portions of the actual conversations between delegates with on-the-spot observations.