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To The Last Round
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Salmons vivid use of recollections and dramatic"es 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 Salmons 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 men - had been reduced to just 50 survivors. Andrew Salmons definitive history which gained excellent reviews in hardback and sold very steadily is very much in the Antony Beevor mould: accessible pacy narrative and painting a moving and exciting picture through the extensive use of eyewitness accounts of veterans of whom he has tracked down and interviewed dozens. Andrew Salmon is a Seoul-based journalist who writes for The Times The Washington Times and Forbes magazine. He first became fascinated by the battle in 2001 when he met British veterans returning to the Imjin River to mark the 50th
anniversary."
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 men - had been reduced to just 50 survivors. Andrew Salmons definitive history which gained excellent reviews in hardback and sold very steadily is very much in the Antony Beevor mould: accessible pacy narrative and painting a moving and exciting picture through the extensive use of eyewitness accounts of veterans of whom he has tracked down and interviewed dozens. Andrew Salmon is a Seoul-based journalist who writes for The Times The Washington Times and Forbes magazine. He first became fascinated by the battle in 2001 when he met British veterans returning to the Imjin River to mark the 50th
anniversary."
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