Ebook208 pages2 hours
Korean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
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 1950/1. On 27 November 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, US General Walton H. Walker’s Eighth Army front along the Ch’ongch’on axis is breached, while to the east, the US X Corps suffers a series of crushing defeats, including at the Chosin Reservoir, precipitating a massive evacuation from the North Korean port of Hungnam.
Author
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.
Read more from Gerry Van Tonder
Irgun: Revisionist Zionism, 1931–1948 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSino-Indian War: Border Clash: October–November 1962 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SS Einsatzgruppen: Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red China: Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorth Korea Invades the South: Across the 38th Parallel, June 1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBerlin Blockade: Soviet Chokehold and the Great Allied Airlift 1948-1949 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMalayan Emergency: Triumph of the Running Dogs, 1948–1960 Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5North Korean Onslaught: UN Stand at the Pusan Perimeter, August-September 1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInchon Landing: MacArthur's Korean War Masterstroke, September 1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKorean War—Imjin River: Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951–July 1953 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEchoes of the Coventry Blitz Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nottingham's Military Legacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSheffield's Military Legacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKorean War - Allied Surge: Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Korean War—Chinese Invasion
Related ebooks
Pecos Pueblo People Through the Ages: Stories of Time and Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Indian Tribes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhilosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClassic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBasketball and Football Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTragedies of Cañon Blanco: A Story of the Texas Panhandle Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChronicles of Border Warfare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKept in the Dark: The Denial to Bomber Command of Vital Enigma and Other Intelligence Information During World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMadison County, Mississippi Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan Hunt in Kenya Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Thunder: Three Classic Westerns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivil War Comes Home: The Battle of Williamsburg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn My Father's Footsteps: My Journey into Lakota Country Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Mexico Political History 1967-2015: Conversations With Those Directly Involved Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHomemade Thunder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Towns of Route 66 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Native American Favorites: Over 50 Delicious, Passed Down Recipes Across the Country: Authentic Meals Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutlaws of the Brasada: A Western Duo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthern Navajo Frontier 1860 1900 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greatest Moments of Boxing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHuckabee: The Authorized Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivil War and Reconstruction in Alabama Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Kaiser's Battle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Military Life & Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC: Monty's Army Commander Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe RipTide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving with the Brooklyn Bridge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKorean War—Chinese Invasion: People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Asian History For You
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShinto the Kami Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan: With an Extensive Introduction and Notes by Alexander Bennett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Caste (Oprah's Book Club): by Isabel Wilkerson - The Origins of Our Discontents - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962—1976 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Myths & Legends of Japan: Study of Japanese Folklore (Illustrated Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices from Chernobyl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Capitalist Manifesto Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Korean War—Chinese Invasion
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Korean War—Chinese Invasion - Gerry van Tonder
(
3e book_preview_excerpt.html [rF\ [KpE[-Kbtݻ, &Ry?Eozvfz5?}ɜso&*rzzv3J$soxsWߟ__}c