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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. 1967. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Nobody won the Korean War. Communism suffered no defeat in Korea neither did its sudden aggres- sion gain a victory as the dividing line of the 38th Parallel still testifies. In that alone the free world could justi- fiably claim a moral victory. Tim Carew writes of a war as vicious uncomfortable bloody and wasteful as any in history and of the men from the Commonwealth who fought in it. Korea is a hilly country- names like Pork Chop Hill Gloster Hill the Hook Betty Grable will strike chords in many memories. In summer it smelt like a dung heap-and in winter it could be so cold that a man’s hands would freeze to his gun. This was the country in which the Common- wealth 27 and 29 Brigades and Com- monwealth ships and aircraft joined with the other UN forces to show that the free world had not defeated one tyranny simply to allow another to take its place. Britain sent her Gloucesters- ‘Glorious Glosters’ fighting back-to- back as did their forefathers in an action which stirred the world. The ‘Kosbies’ were there the gallant gunners of the Royal Artillery’s 170th Battery the King’s Hussars the ‘Diehards’ from Middlesex the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and many more. (SP)