'Salmon's vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict' Time Out
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 29th Infantry Brigade, and above all the "Glorious Glosters" of the Gloster Regiment, fought an epic last stand against the largest communist offensive of the war. It lasted three days, of bitter hand-to-hand combat. By the end of it one battalion of the Glosters – some 750...
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萨尔蒙生动地运用了回忆和戏剧性的引语，使一场被不公正地遗忘的冲突复活了
即使是第二次世界大战现在也只是人们记忆中的边缘，而且英国军队现在正在阿富汗进行一场漫长、残酷和消耗性的老式战争，历史的注意力开始转向1950年代初的朝鲜战争。值得注意的是，这场冲突中最臭名昭著、最著名的战争，从英国人的角度来看，以前从未有过长篇大论。安德鲁·萨尔蒙（Andrew Salmon）的书已经获得了极好的评价，并且已经售出了两本精装本，填补了这一空白。这是临津江战役的故事，当时英国第29步兵旅，尤其是格洛斯特团的“光荣的格洛斯特”，与这场战争中最大规模的共产主义进攻进行了史诗般的最后一站。持续了三天，激烈的肉搏战。到最后一个营的格洛斯特-大约750。。。
'Salmon's vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict' Time Out
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 29th Infantry Brigade, and above all the "Glorious Glosters" of the Gloster Regiment, fought an epic last stand against the largest communist offensive of the war. It lasted three days, of bitter hand-to-hand combat. By the end of it one battalion of the Glosters – some 750...