British author Andrew Salmon has released To the Last Round: The epic British stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951. It’s the first comprehensive historical account of the bloodiest battle involving British troops since World War II, when a simple British brigade found itself within feet of a Chinese army on this very same week [...]
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