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Battleground Korea: The British in the Korea
Battleground Korea The British in the Korea Author:Charles Whiting Here well known military historian Charles Whiting provides a vivid account of the Korean War, described as the nastiest little war and the last major one of the 20th century. In June 1950 the Cold War suddenly became hot when Communist-backed North Korean forces invaded the US-protected South Korea. Anti-war dissent at home and threats to use... more » the Atom bomb added to the danger of the situation, threatening a Third World War. US General MacArthur launched a surprise amphibious assault at Inchon behind North Korean lines, but victory was snatched from the combined US/British forces by the entry of 600,000 Chinese troops on the side of North Korea. Atrocities were committed on both sides, but for the next two years Allied POWs became the biggest pawns in the great peace talks. If they broke and confessed that it had been an Imperialist War, as their captors fervently wanted them to, it would have been a great propaganda victory for the enemy. Thus the fina! l round of the Korean War was for the hearts and minds of the prisoners, only a few of who broke. Battleground Korea provides a vivid account of the Korean War, inparticular British involvement, and Charles Whiting's compelling narrative is strongly supported with graphic eyewitness accounts.« less