Ebook: To The Last Round: the Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951
Author: Salmon Andrew
- Tags: Korean War 1950-1953--Participation British, Imjin River Battle of the Korea 1951, Korean War 1950-1953, Military participation--British, Personal narratives, Korean War 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives British, Korean War 1950-1953 -- Participation British, Military participation -- British, Korea
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: MBI
- City: New York;Korea
- Language: English
- epub
Cover; Title page; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements and Sources; Introduction Battle, Tragedy, Legend; Prologue Ambush Patrol: Prelude to Battle; Chapter 1 Lack of the Morning Calm: The Korean War; Chapter 2 To Korea; Chapter 3 Catastrophe; Chapter 4 At War in Winter; Chapter 5 Valley of the Water Dragon; Chapter 6 Onslaught: 22 April; Chapter 7 St George's Day: 23 April; Chapter 8 Crescendo: 24 April; Chapter 9 Fortress in the Clouds: The Glosters' Last Stand; Chapter 10 Death Ride: Breakout Down Route 11; Chapter 11 Flags and Body Bags; Chapter 12 In Enemy Hands: The Camps.;With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory, and with British forces now engaged in a lengthy, brutal and attritional old-fashioned war in Afghanistan, historical attention is starting to turn to the Korean War of the early 1950s. And remarkably, the most notorious and celebrated battle in that conflict, from a British point of view, has never previously been written about at length. Andrew Salmon's book, which has garnered excellent reviews and sold out two hardback printings already, has filled that gap. This is the story of the Battle of the Imjin River, when the British 2.
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