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The Korean War Retold by a British Reporter

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2011-06-24

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[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] "Hello‚ my name is Andrew Salmon. I'm a Seoul-based reporter. I currently write for The Washington Times‚ for The Times in London‚ and also for Forbes Magazine in the U.S. And this is a very appropriate place to actually do the interview‚ because behind us is a T-34 tank. And my wife's family was in Seoul in June 1950‚ and my mother-in-law actually remembers seeing a column of these things rolling through the streets of Seoul on the 3rd day of the war."
[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] "The book is called "Scorched Earth‚ Black Snow‚" and it covers mainly the fighting in North Korea in 1950. The reason it's called "Scorched Earth" is because when the UN forces were retreating from North Korea through Pyeongyang‚ they destroyed everything in their wake - bridges‚ villages‚ food stocks‚ infrastructure‚ everything was destroyed. And in military history‚ that's known as the "scorched earth" campaign. The reason it's called "Black Snow" is because‚ again‚ during the winter fighting when there was snow on the ground‚ there was such heavy use of napalm by the UN air forces that the whole areas of snow would turn black with petroleum jelly."
[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] "One of the thousands of little tragedies of the war was the night before the British soldiers deployed on the ships to come to Busan‚ to come to Korea. The barracks were woken up. One of the soldiers was screaming‚ crying. He had a bad dream. Anyway he realized that his bad dream‚ this nightmare‚ was a premonition of his own death. He was killed in the first battle. His name‚ Private Sharpe‚ is just up here."
[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] "So yeah‚ when researching this book‚ I think I gathered about 90 interviews from people in the U.S.‚ South Korea‚ the U.K.‚ and Australia‚ and spent a lot of time in dusty old museum back rooms‚ gathering archive material‚ looking through just a range of war diaries‚ personal letters‚ unit diaries‚ and so on. That's all in the back of the book. It's fully sourced."
[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] " Being in Korea‚ being a reporter‚ and being someone who has always read military history‚ writing about the Korean War was an obvious topic‚ an obvious subject. Another reason for doing so was because the Korean War really is the forgotten war. There's very‚ very little material about it in the U.K. where I'm from. So for me‚ covering this was kind of urgent territory‚ and it was a great opportunity to cover some tremendous and traumatic and tragic stories."
[Interview : Andrew Salmon‚ British Reporter
UK
] "The Korean War is‚ today‚ history‚ lost in the mist of time. We lost over a thousand men killed in action in the Korean War‚ more than we've lost in Falklands‚ Iraq‚ and Afghanistan combined. Like all history‚ it's a jigsaw puzzle of biographies. And my aim in writing this book was not really to elucidate on the politics or the strategy‚ but to really try and capture what it was like to be here‚ in Korea‚ in 1950‚ as a soldier fighting in this traumatic‚ catastrophic war. If I've achieved that‚ I'll be very happy."
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Looks like a great book that will take you right to the battlefield.
And from the description it seems that he really captures the see-saw nature of the fight between the North and South. At any given moment it seemed that one side was winning against the other.
Right the soldiers he highlights thought they had victory in the bag and would be home by Christmas but then they were ambushed by forces supported by C

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