To The Last Round
The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION '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 fill…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84513-831-8
- EAN: 9781845138318
- Produktnummer: 13863399
- Verlag: Aurum
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'587 KB
Über den Autor
Journalist Andrew Salmon covers the Koreas for Forbes, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. Educated at Elizabeth College Guernsey, the University of Kent and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, he is the author of business history American Business and the Korean Miracle and two books about the Korean War. The first, To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea, 1951, was the unanimous winner of the Hampshire Libraries/Osprey Publishing `Best Military Book of 2009' award. In 2010, he was honoured at Seoul's National Assembly with a `Korean Wave' award for his contribution to the literature of the Korean War. He lives in Seoul with wife Ji-young and daughter Hannah.
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