The Imjin and Kapyong Battles
The Imjin and Kapyong Battles
An âexcellent historyâ of a massive Communist offensive and the brigades that resisted it (H-War). The sacrifice of the British regiment known as the âGlorious Glostersâ in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and ...
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An âexcellent historyâ of a massive Communist offensive and the brigades that resisted it (H-War). The sacrifice of the British regiment known as the âGlorious Glostersâ in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved great renown. Using official and unofficial source material ranging from personal interviews to war diaries, this in-depth study, the first of its kind, 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 âthe forgotten war.â âIn Korea, on the night of 22nd April 1951, communist forces unleashed what remains, to this day, their greatest offensive since Zhukovâs 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.ââAndrew Salmon, author of Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950
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