The Korean War. The First Comprehensive Account of the Historical Background and Development of the Korean War (1950-53). SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROBERT THOMPSON

8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; sand cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, textured endpapers, green silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROBERT THOMPSON FROM JONG-ICK CHOI, MINISTER OF THE KOREAN EMBASSY IN LONDON, WITH THE LATTER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The minister's business card is loosely inserted. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916-1992) was a British military officer and expert on counter-insurgency. 'He was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency' (Wikipedia).