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Author: David Jay Bercuson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780802085160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering training, manning, equipment, and combat efforts, this is first full non-offical history of the Canadian Army's operations from the summer of 1950 to the ceasefire of 1953.
Author: Brent Byron Watson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2002-08-14
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 077357025X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing rigorous archival research and oral accounts, Far Eastern Tour follows the experiences of Canadian soldiers from the time they responded to the government's call to arms to the indifferent reaction to their homecoming a year later. Dealing with the fiasco surrounding recruitment, an inappropriate training regime, and the stark living and combat conditions, Brent Watson examines the human consequences of an army that was totally unprepared for service in the Far East.
Author: Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Directorate of History and Heritage
Publisher: Vanwell Pub Limited
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9782920718852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing in the footsteps of previous commemorative histories, this book looks at the Canadian participation in the Korean War, The Forgotten War. Without resorting to fiction, this "unofficial" history looks at a "sour little war" through the eyes of the proverbial old soldier or old salt, as well as those more serious men who rightly occupy the front and center of the stage.
Author: William Johnston
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0774841060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. Responding to a United Nations' call, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an American-led UN force. This comprehensive account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides the first detailed study of the training, leadership, operations, and tactics of the brigade under each of its three wartime commanders as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies. This impeccably researched analytical history also examines the various units, from the "Special Force" to the army's regular battalions that replaced them.
Author: Dan Bjarnason
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2011-03-02
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1459700139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApril 24th, 1951,was a lonely, moon-lit night in Korea. On a godforsaken hill, a few hundred surrounded Canadian soldiers waited for the fight of their lives to begin. Soon, Chinese communist troops in their thousands, swarmed around them, plunging straight towards the Korean capital, Seoul. These Canadians were all that blocked the way. This is the story of the first battle by Canada’s first soldiers in the Korean War: the 2nd Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. These volunteers were straight from Central Casting: truck drivers, construction workers, kids just out of high school, and bored farm boys. Outnumbered and outgunned, this people’s army of amateurs beat off some of the toughest troops on earth. This battle that’s become a legend takes its name from a nearby peanut-sized village: Kapyong. It’s become a mythic Canadian story, except this is mythology that is true and real.
Author: Sean Richmond
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1487503466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of how two of America's closest allies, Canada and Britain, have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal obligations during two of the most significant international conflicts since the Second World War.
Author: Robert Teigrob
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0802099238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing Canadian and American responses to events such as the atomic bomb, the Gouzenko Affair, the creation of NATO, and the Korean War, Teigrob traces the role that culture and public opinion played in shaping responses to international affairs.
Author: Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0231549946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the first six months of the Korean War drove both superpowers to intensify their defense buildup. American leaders feared the worst-case scenario—that Stalin was prepared to start World War III—and raced to build up strategic arms, resulting in a struggle they did not seek out or intend. Their decisions stemmed from incomplete interpretations of Soviet and Chinese goals, especially the belief that China was a Kremlin puppet. Yet Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il-sung all had their own agendas, about which the United States lacked reliable intelligence. Drawing on newly available documents and memoirs—including previously restricted archives in Russia, China, and North Korea—Wells analyzes the key decision points that changed the course of the war. He also provides vivid profiles of the central actors as well as important but lesser known figures. Bringing together studies of military policy and diplomacy with the roles of technology, intelligence, and domestic politics in each of the principal nations, Fearing the Worst offers a new account of the Korean War and its lasting legacy.
Author: Ted Barris
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Published: 2010-05-22
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0887628206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1950 and 1953, nearly 30,000 Canadian volunteers joined the effort to contain communist incursions into South Korea and support the fledgling United Nations. All the services were there and all served with distinction. The Royal Canadian Navy led a daring rescue of troops from the port of Chinnampo in 1950; members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry won the highest US battle honour at Kap’yong in April 1951; the Vandoos turned the tide at Hill 355; and twice – at Hill 355 in October 1952 and Hill 187 in May 1953 – members of the Royal Canadian Regiment held firm against forces that greatly outnumbered them. The navy and the infantry were bolstered by the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and Lord Strathcona’s Horse tanks, as well as members of the service, medical, engineers, provost, chaplain and intelligence corps. Still more, from the RCAF Thunderbird Squadron, took part in the Korean Airlift – three years of non-stop supply flights across the Pacific.
