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Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
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Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951

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An examination of the causes and the direct outcome of North Korea’s seemingly unstoppable thrust down the Korean Peninsula in 1950.

In his first four volumes on the Korean War, the author traces the war’s progress from the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the desperate American defense of the Pusan Perimeter, General Douglas MacArthur’s daring and highly successful amphibious offensive at Inch’on, and his subsequent advance across the 38th Parallel to the Yalu River on the Chinese Manchurian border

Communist Chinese forces, that have been secretly infiltrating North Korean territory by slipping across the Yalu from mid-October 1950, ambush a South Korean regiment in the mountains of central North Korea. This is the first of several Chinese victories over unsuspecting and overstretched South Korean and American units in the winter of 1950-1951.

On November 27, 1950, Chinese leader Mao Zedong, ostensibly fearful of the consequences of hostile American forces on his country’s border along the Yalu River, orders 250,000 troops into Korea, with express orders to annihilate the UN forces. In the western half of the theater, U.S. General Walton H. Walker’s Eighth Army front along the Ch’ongch’on axis is breached, while to the east, the U.S. X Corps suffers a series of crushing defeats, including at the Chosin Reservoir, precipitating a massive evacuation from the North Korean port of Hungnam.

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"An extraordinarily informative and exceptionally well written, deftly organized and presented, detailed history.” —Midwest Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 30, 2020
ISBN9781526778109
Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
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Gerry van Tonder

Born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, historian and author Gerry van Tonder came to Britain in 1999. Specializing in military history, Gerry has authored multiple books on Rhodesia and the co-authored definitive Rhodesia Regiment 1899–1981. Gerry presented a copy to the regiment’s former colonel-in-chief, Her Majesty the Queen.

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