Triumph at Kapyong

by Bjarnason, Dan; Clarkson, Adrienne; Mansbridge, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781554888726
• ISBN10: 1554888727
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-02
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

April 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 Biography

Dan Bjarnason was a television news and documentary reporter for The National at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for over thirty-five years. His worldwide assignments, including time as a foreign correspondent, allowed him to indulge his passion for military history and to visit dozens of battlefields from the Little Bighorn to the Falklands. He lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Foreword	p. 10
Acknowledgements	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Canada Is Not Sir Galahad	p. 23
Jack James's Scoop	p. 27
A Citizen's Army Goes to War	p. 51
Death in the Snow	p. 68
The Battle Begins: ôLet the Bastards Come!ö	p. 99
Just a Wonderful Group of Men	p. 151
Whatever Happened to …	p. 169
Decorations Won at Kapyong	p. 173
Killed in Action at Kapyong	p. 175
Notes	p. 177
Further Reading	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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