Tracing the story of the Korean War from 1950 and the North Korean army's summer invasion across the 38th Parallel, So They Will Know brings to life the global conflict that remains misunderstood, underappreciated, and inadequately documented. In fact, a typical college American History textbook will have little more than a single page devoted to the Korean War, and rarely are there mentions of the specific battles where thousands of men were killed or injured during the final months before the close of the armed conflict.