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Author | : S. P. MacKenzie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191629529 |
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During the Korean War nearly a thousand British servicemen, along with a handful of British civilians, were captured by North Korean and Red Chinese forces. In various camps in the vicinity of Pyongyang and villages along the Yalu River these men found themselves subjected to a prolonged effort by the enemy to undermine their allegiance to the Crown and enlist them in various propaganda campaigns directed against the UN war effort. British Prisoners of the korean War is the first academic study to examine in detail exactly what happened to the major groups of British military and civilian prisoners held in different locations at various junctures between 1950 and 1953. It explores the extent to which factors such as exposure to the actions of the North Koreans as against the Red Chinese, evolving physical conditions, enemy re-education efforts, communist attempts at blackmail, British attitudes towards the Americans, and personal background and leadership qualities among captives themselves influenced the willingness and ability of the British prisoners to collaborate or resist. Thanks to the availability of hitherto classified or underutilized source materials, it is now possible to test the common popular assumption-based on official accounts and memoirs from the 1950s-that, in marked contrast to their American cousins, British captives in the Korean War were pretty much immune to communist efforts at subverting their loyalty. The results suggest that British attitudes and actions while in enemy hands were rather more nuanced and varied than previously assumed.
Author | : Great Britain. Ministry of Defence |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cyril Cunningham |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1990-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0850527678 |
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This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War.The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War.He explains in detail how many prisonors were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potentional "progressives and reactionaries".
Author | : Grace Huxford |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526118971 |
Download The Korean War in Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of ‘germ’ warfare to anxiety over Communist use of ‘brainwashing’ and treachery at home, the Korean War precipitated a series of short-lived panics in 1950s Britain. But by the time of its uneasy ceasefire in 1953, the war was becoming increasingly forgotten. Using Mass Observation surveys, letters, diaries and a wide range of under-explored contemporary material, this book charts the war’s changing position in British popular imagination and asks how it became known as the ‘Forgotten War’. It explores the war in a variety of viewpoints – conscript, POW, protester and veteran – and is essential reading for anyone interested in Britain’s Cold War past.
Author | : Her Majesty's Stationery Office |
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Release | : 1955 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : Garrett County Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0966646932 |
Download The Iron Cage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war "liberated" from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home. In investigating the fate of victims of the Cold War, Nigel Cawthorne travelled to Siberia to follow their trail.
Author | : Anthony Farrar-Hockley |
Publisher | : Stationery Office Books (TSO) |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Download The British Part in the Korean War: An honourable discharge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this volume, General Farrar-Hockley completes the account of Britain's part in the Korean War, from January 1951, when the United Nations' forces seemed about to be overwhelmed by the Chinese Communist Forces, to the armistice in the summer of 1953.
Author | : S. P. MacKenzie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199656029 |
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The first academic study to examine in detail exactly what happened to the major groups of British military and civilian prisoners held in different locations at various junctures between during the korean War. Tests the common popular assumption that British captives were pretty much immune to communist efforts at subverting their loyalty.
Author | : Anthony Farrar-Hockley |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2007-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473819229 |
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An account of the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, at the Battle of Imjin River during the Korean War and the survivors’ captivity in a POW camp. In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General, Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, has painted a vivid and accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers and soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not, however, end there. Like the majority of those who survived, the author became a prisoner-of-war, and the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in and out of Chinese prison camps. This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story, and it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is, above all, an amazing story of human fortitude and high adventure.
Author | : Peter Gaston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843420163 |
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Lists of all personnel, by regiments, taken prisoner with, in most cases, the final classification of those whose fate was initially uncertain, e.g. Missing believed killed or Missing.