Grace Huxford 
Korean War in Britain 
Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting

The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950 53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of germ warfare to anxiety over Communist use of brainwashing and treachery at home, the Korean War precipitated a series of short-lived panics in 1950s Britain. But by the time of its uneasy ceasefire in 1953, the war was becoming increasingly forgotten. Using Mass Observation surveys, letters, diaries and a wide range of under-explored contemporary material, this book charts the war s changing position in British popular imagination and asks how it became known as the Forgotten War . It explores the war in a variety of viewpoints conscript, POW, protester and veteran and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain s Cold War past. — .