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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- ONE A Korean Dunkirk? -- Surprise Attack -- The Long Walk to Purgatory -- Civilian Prisoners of War -- Death of a Division -- War Crimes Division -- By the Skin of their Teeth -- The Massacre of the Cavalrymen -- The Namwon Bunch -- The Inchon Landing -- The Month of Massacres -- The Killings in Inchon Prison Jail -- The Taejon Massacre -- No Mercy -- TWO North to the Yalu -- The Death March to Pyongyang -- The House on the Hill -- The Sunchon Tunnel Massacre |
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At the Mercy of the TigerTHREE The Chinese Will Not Enter the War -- Bugging Out -- The Last Stand of the 8th Cavalry -- The Brave Priest -- Stories from Hell -- The Bean Camp -- The Red Cross Makes a Good Target -- The Frozen Hell of the Chosin Reservoir -- The Destruction of the 2nd Division -- Death Valley and the Massacre of the Litter Patients -- The Camp -- FOUR Against All Odds -- The Battle of Happy Valley -- The One Who Got Away -- The Lost Division -- Search and Recovery -- The China Connection -- Death March -- FIVE Stemming the Tide |
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The Glorious GlostersEvery Man for Himself -- A Month in the Wilderness -- For Valour -- Confession -- The Death of Father Kapaun -- More British Atrocities -- The Compound at 52 Fu Hsing Road -- SIX Life in the Camps -- Escape -- The Murder of Prisoners -- Doctors Without Medicine -- Indoctrination -- Over the Hills and Far Away -- The Kennel Club -- SEVEN Stalemate -- More Prisoners Required -- A Summer's Day -- Resistance -- May Day -- Religious Intolerance -- Prisoners of the United Nations -- The Son-Yi Hole -- EIGHT Hope at Last |
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""Operation 'Little Switch'""""Operation 'Big Switch'""; ""War Crimes or not War Crimes?""; ""The Disappearance of Wing Commander Baldwin""; ""Last Train to Manchouli""; ""The Lucky Sabre Pilot""; ""The Russian Defector""; ""The Eisenhower Briefing""; ""Prisoner in Peking""; ""NINE The Forgotten Souls""; ""Where Did All the Sabre Pilots Go?""; ""Return to Pyoktong""; ""Ghosts in the Gulag""; ""The Czech Military Hospital""; ""The Romanian Engineer""; ""The Stoney Beach Report""; ""The Search for Remains""; ""Home After Forty-five Years""; ""Appendix One British Prisoners of War � Totals"" |
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Appendix Two Prisoners of War Exchanged during Operations 'Little Switch' and 'Big Switch'Appendix Three British Army Personnel Killed or Presumed to have Died with no Recorded Burial Location -- Appendix Four Declassified Reports and Correspondence -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
As there was no clear victor at the conclusion of the Korean War, no war crime trials were held. But, as this book reveals, there is evidence of at least 1,600 atrocities and war crimes perpetrated against troops serving with the United Nations command in Korea. The bulk of the victims were Americans but many British servicemen were tortured, killed or simply went missing. Much of the carefully researched material in this book is horrific but the stark truth is that those North Koreans and Chinese responsible went unpunished for their shameful deeds. Korean Atrocity examines the three phases of |
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Originally published: Shrewsbury: Airlife, 2000 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Atrocities.
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Prisoners of war
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Atrocities
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Prisoners
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783836499 |
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1783836490 |
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1306863538 |
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9781306863537 |
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1473815819 |
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9781473815810 |
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