Cold War Origins - Bibliography

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Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War. Vol. 1. Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945–1947. Princeton, N.J., 1981.

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——. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, 1997.

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