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The diggers of Kapyong : the story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War / Tom Gilling.
Van Pelt Library DS919.7.A8 G55 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilling, Tom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia. Australian Army. Royal Australian Regiment. Battalion, 3rd.
- Australia.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Campaigns.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, Australian.
- Kapyong, Battle of, Korea, 1951.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
- Summary:
- April 1951. After ten months of fighting, the Korean War hangs in the balance. A single Australian battalion, backed by Kiwi gunners and American tanks, is dug in on a hilltop overlooking the Kapyong Valley, north of Seoul. Together with a Canadian battalion on a nearby hill, they are all that stands between Mao's army and the South Korean capital. Since pouring across the North Korean border to support Kim Il Sung's communist fighters, the Chinese have launched offensive after offensive in an attempt to drive General MacArthur's UN forces off the peninsula. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides have been killed or have frozen to death in the cruel Korean winter. On the barren hills above the Kapyong Valley, the heavily outnumbered Diggers of 3RAR wait in darkness for a battle that could decide the war's outcome. Told through the eyes of the soldiers, The Diggers of Kapyong is the compelling account of the mateship, sacrifice and heroism that defined Australia's role in a bloody war whose bitter legacy still resonates today.
- Contents:
- The finest troops in the world
- Losing the Cold War
- No reason for alarm
- Bugging out
- Once learnt, never forgotten
- Fight to the last
- Chuckles
- Inchon
- You've got a ride, brother
- Over by Christmas
- Unconfirmed and unaccepted
- The CO's copped it
- I did what I was told
- That awful goddamn trap
- Dangerous to touch
- Laundrymen
- Chaos and confusion
- Maximum damage
- No more intermingling
- Sacked
- Don't you come back without it
- Why you fight so bravely?
- Waves of Chinese
- At last I felt like and Anzac.
- Notes:
- Includes index and bibliographic references.
- ISBN:
- 9781761068690
- 1761068695
- OCLC:
- 1414683264
- Publisher Number:
- 90100104847
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