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The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea, 1951 de Paul Mackenzie

The Imjin and Kapyong Battles, Korea, 1951: Twentieth-Century Battles

Autor Paul Mackenzie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mar 2013
The sacrifice of the "Glorious Glosters" in defence of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved greater renown in those nations than any other military action since World War II. This book is the first to compare in depth what happened and why. Using official and unofficial source material ranging from personal interviews to war diaries, this study seeks to disentangle the mythology surrounding both battles and explain why events unfolded as they did. Based on thorough familiarity with all available sources, many not previously utilized, it sheds new light on fighting "the forgotten war."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253009081
ISBN-10: 0253009081
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 16 b&w illustrations, 6 maps
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Seria Twentieth-Century Battles

Cuprins

Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; AbbreviationsPrologue1. Imjin: The First Day; 2. Imjin: The Second Day; 3. Imjin: The Third Day; 4. Imjin: The Final Day; 5. Kapyong: The First Day; 6. Kapyong: The Second Day; 7. Kapyong: The Third Day; 8. Kapyong: The Final DayEpilogue; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

In Korea, on the night of 22nd April 1951, communist forces unleashed what remains, to this day, their greatest offensive since Zhukov's storm on Berlin. In the desperate fighting that followed, the key flanks of free world forces were held by one British and one Commonwealth brigade. The former took on a Chinese army; the latter, a Chinese division. Six decades later, an American historian has dismantled the barriers between Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealand accounts of those whirlwind days to compose the only comparative analysis of the tragedy on the Imjin and the stand at Kapyong. While not neglecting grand strategy, S. P. MacKenzie is at his best at ground zero: his pages capture, for veterans and their descendants, vivid glimpses of the close-range, midnight combat against China's 'human wave' in full flood. I write with admiration for MacKenzie's research and in agreement with his conclusions.--Andrew Salmon, author of Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950

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Sheds new light on fighting "the forgotten war"