�A remarkable tripartite collaboration....A new and highly revealing account of how the Korean War began, based
on a careful comparison of Chinese, Soviet, and even North Korean sources. The authors� achievement, from a historian�s
perspective, is roughly the equivalent of making a first flight around the hidden side of the moon....an exemplary
standard for the �new� Cold War history.�
--Atlantic Monthly
�A fascinating and exciting book. Every expert on Soviet and Chinese foreign policy and every student of international
relations and the Cold War will have to read it. I am awed by the materials that have been put together in this
book; it is international collaboration at its very best.�
--Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia
Stanford University Press Web Site, Aug., 2001
Summary
Using major new sources, including cables and letters between Mao Zedong and Stalin and interviews with key
Russian, Chinese, and Korean participants, this book tells for the first time the inside story of the creation
of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.
