Name: The war in Korea
Brand: BBC Records and Tapes
SKU: REC639
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Detail			Value
Catalogue number			REC 639
Title			The war in Korea
Artist(s)			Various
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Very Good Plus
BBC records label code			F
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			1987
Distributed / printed by			BBC
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Documentaries View all other tracks listed as Documentaries.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			REC 639 A-2C-1-1- DD REC 639 B-2C-1-1-x1 DD
My rating			*****
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Side & track	Track and Artist									Length
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A1	President Truman warns the American people "aggression must be met firmly, appeasement leads to further aggression and war"
A2	The British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, wonders about Chinese intentions in Korea
A3	... and goes on to outline the threat to world peace in uncharacteristically dramatics terms
A4	First impressions of life in the Pusan perimeter by men of the British 27th Infantry Division ... Brigadier Gwynne remembers his exotic welcome
A5	27th Brigade Commanding Officer, Brigadier Coad, outlines the problems facing him
A6	Captain Evans describes "the cowboy phase, no one really knew what was going on"
A7	On the Naktong river front Colonel Willoughby remembers the feeling of being heavily outnumbered by North Korean troops
A8	Alvar Liddell reports on the early fighting around Pusan ...
A9	... and then General MacArthur's brilliantly conceived seaborne assult on Inchon
A10	James Cameron remembers a "moment of peculiar lunacy" as a press boat full of "disputing and terrified" correspondents lands at Inchon ahead of the U. S. Marines
A11	Alvar Liddell announces the securing of the Inchon beach head
A12	Following U. N. success at Inchon, James Cameron sees events "flipping quickly from disaster to conquest" in "this beastly and disgusting war"
A13	Brigadier Gwynne, second in command of the Middlesex Regiment, describes the friendly rivalry as the U. N. troops raced north of the thirty-eight Parallel
A14	Sergeant Warner remembers with some feeling his first G. I. breakfast
A15	Major Farrar-Hockley, with the Gloucesters, has a hearty disregard for the language barriers ...
A16	... while James Cameron has problems
A17	Rene Cutforth recalls the wind of the Korean winter that sapped morale and created "generalised fear"
A18	Australian troops have a typically graphic name for the Korean wind. Colonel Willoughby remembers
A19	As the war turned against the U. N. Forces, the retreat south begins. Brigadier Gwynne, in the rearguard, sees the columns moving back
A20	Captain Evans sees an American division "shot up" in its wild retreat south
A21	With the refugees streaming southwards, Colonel Willoughby remembers "one particular tragic moment"
A22	Rene Cutforth's vivid despatch picks out the individual human tragedies among the refugees
A23	Sir Gladwin Jebb, Ambassador to the U. N., gives Great Britain's reaction as Chinese Communists enter the war.
A24	"Never ride the lonely road, above all at sundown" ... James Cameron recalls a Korean maxim
B1	Sargeant Warner, of 1st Middlesex, describes a typical Chinese attack
B2	... while Colonel Rickcord, Ulster Rifles, and Sergeant Taylor, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, assess the merits of the Chinese private soldier
B3	(As track 2)
B4	The Chinese Spring offensive opens on the Imjim River front. Major Farrar-Hackley, adjutant of the Gloucesters, saw the attackers' first wave ...
B5	... and describes the action which led to the award of a posthumous V. C. to Lieutenant Curtis in fierce fighting on the Imjin
B6	Major Nixon, Company Commander in the Ulster Rifles, gives a breezty account of continuous Chinese attacks beaten off over three days
B7	Surrounded by Chinese Infantry the Gloucesters hold their position. General Brodie recalls giving the order to hold
B8	At the height of the battle RSM Smyth hears the Drum Major answer the constant Chinese bugles with his own full repertiore
B9	U. S. General Matthew Ridgway pays tribute to the Gloucesters' stand on the Imjin
B10	Private Speakman laconically relives the action which resulted in his V. C.
B11	Following their capture at the battle of the Imjin River, Major Farrar-Hockley (Gloucesters) and Private May (Ulster Rifles) reflect on the early days of their captivity
B12	(As track 11)
B13	Physical ill-treatment in the P. O. W. camps was common. Fusilier Kimme recalls one experience
B14	A day in the life of a Prisoner of War. Army Chaplain Davies remembers the cold, the hunger and the indoctrination classes
B15	President Truman outlines his reaons for dismissing General MacArthur, "the cause of world peace is more important than any one individual"
B16	General Douglas MacArthur bids his historic farewell to an appreciative American Congress
B17	Major General West, Commander of the 1st Commonwealth Division, recalls the bitter fighting of the last few months of the war
B18	President Truman, in an emotional after-dinner speech, rejects the criticism that the Korean War is "Truman's War"
B19	Henry Cabot Lodge jnr, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations presents the official truce communication to the U. N. Secretary General
B20	"The ceremony took place in almost complete silence". Major General West sees the signing of the Armistice at Panmunjom
B21	Private May, in captivity, celebrates the Armistice with a little peace wine
B22	President Eisenhower, in sombre mood, welcomes the ending of hostilities
B23	"There never was a war like this one for bitterness and savagery." James Cameron gives his prescient verdict on the War
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