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| Author | : Grace Huxford |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2018-05-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526118971 |
The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of ‘germ’ warfare to anxiety over Communist use of ‘brainwashing’ and treachery at home, the Korean War precipitated a series of short-lived panics in 1950s Britain. But by the time of its uneasy ceasefire in 1953, the war was becoming increasingly forgotten. Using Mass Observation surveys, letters, diaries and a wide range of under-explored contemporary material, this book charts the war’s changing position in British popular imagination and asks how it became known as the ‘Forgotten War’. It explores the war in a variety of viewpoints – conscript, POW, protester and veteran – and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain’s Cold War past.
| Author | : Stephen F. Kelly |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752494023 |
A dramatic and tragic episode in British military history that will soon not be part of living memory. More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1,000 captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese and North Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were teenagers doing National Service – poorly trained and ill-equipped. The Korean War: Memories of Forgotten British Heroes tells the story of these men in their own words. Most of the veterans are now advanced in age and there is a pressing need for them to tell their tale. So soon after the Second World War, this was a conflict Britain did not need, but she remained steadfast by the side of the Americans, fighting more than 6,000 miles away in a country barely anyone could point to on a map. Yet while we remember those conflicts in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan, the Korean War remains largely forgotten.
| Author | : Andrew Salmon |
| Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
| ISBN | : 9781845137755 |
Though Korea remains the biggest, bloodiest, most brutal war fought by British troops since World War II, the story of their central role in the conflict's most terrible months has never been fully told. Far more than mere battlefield history, Andrew Salmon's book draws on interviews with some 90 veterans and survivors to pain an unforgettable portrait of an immense human tragedy.
| Author | : Anthony Farrar-Hockley |
| Publisher | : Stationery Office Books (TSO) |
| Total Pages | : 1088 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780116309624 |
How the United Kingdom became involved in the conflict in Korea in 1950, and its efforts to unite a country torn apart, is discussed in this two-volume set. Volume I describes Britain's reluctant partnership with the United States, while Volume 2 details the battles and England's eventual withdrawal.
| Author | : Sean Richmond |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1487503466 |
This book tells the story of how two of America's closest allies, Canada and Britain, have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal obligations during two of the most significant international conflicts since the Second World War.
| Author | : Evan Luard |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2019-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421433559 |
Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates with the Second World War. The second part examines British policy during the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Geneva Conference. The third part discusses what contemporary issues in British-Chinese relations were at the time the book was written.
| Author | : Thomas Hennessey |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2015-05-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1784991635 |
Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the ‘Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War. The interaction between the main personalities on the British side – Attlee, Bevan, Morrison, Churchill and Eden – and their American counterparts – Truman, Acheson, Eisenhower and Dulles – are chronicled. By the end of the war the British were concerned that it was the Americans, rather than the Soviets, who were the greater threat to world peace. British fears concerning the Korean War were not limited to the diplomatic and military fronts these extended to the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ threat posed by returning prisoners of war who had been exposed to communist indoctrination. The book is essential reading for those interested in British and US foreign policy and military strategy during the Cold War.
| Author | : Wayne Thompson |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 65 |
| Release | : 1997-07 |
| Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
| ISBN | : 0788140094 |
Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
| Author | : Max Hastings |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2015-10-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501131907 |
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two-hundred vets—including the Chinese—Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home—the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley—and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.
| Author | : Mark Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317318048 |
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
