The Hidden History of the Korean War: New EditionBy I.F. A six-volume anthology of Stone’s writings, A Nonconformist History of Our Times appeared in 1989. This included A Hidden History of the Korean War, first published in 1952 and just reissued. By then, the Korean War was in stalemate, more or less where it had started, a situation comparable to the Western Front in the First World War but went on for two further years under MacArthur’s successor, General Matthew Ridgeway. These days, the Stone’s Hidden History , while still viewed with hostility in certain quarters, is regarded as one of his best works.