General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL is one of the UK's most respected military commentators. As Chief of the General Staff his leadership and example were critical in shaping the debate about the role of the professional army in modern warfare. Robert Lyman is one of Britain's top military historians with several acclaimed books to his name. He spent 20 years in the British Army and he is currently a Research Fellow at the Changing Face of War Centre, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
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Introduction
Part 1
The first War for Korea
Sergeant Collins' Baptism of Fire at P'yongt'aek
Chapter 1 - Who started it, and Why?
Chapter 2 - From a clear blue sky
Chapter 3 - Blitzkrieg, In Mun Gun style
Chapter 4 - Pusan Perimeter
Chapter 5 - Inchon
Part 2
The second War for Korea
Captain Muñoz and the ambush of the 2nd Division below Kunu-ri
Chapter 6 - The Yalu or bust
Chapter 7 - Cataclysm
Chapter 8 - The End of the Proconsul
Part 3
Return to the status quo ante: Stalemate Prologue: [British example (David
Green, Imjin River?)]
Chapter 9 - Rorke's Drift, again...
Chapter 10 - Captives and captivity
Chapter 11 - Moral Anaesthesia
Chapter 12 - Stalemate and armistice
Epilogue