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CRY KOREA BY REGINALD THOMPSON LONDON MACDONALD & CO. (Publishers) LTD. CRY KOREA By the same author: ARGENTINE INTERLUDE DOWN UNDER- AN AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEY GLORY HOLE WILD ANIMAL MAN TOMORROW WE LIVE LAND OF TOMORROW AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT WALES HOME IN HAM PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS MEN UNDER FIRE BLACK CARIBBEAN DEVIL AT MY HEELS The Author (photographed by Stephen Barber) Frontispiece} CRY KOREA BY REGINALD THOMPSON LONDON MACDONALD & CO. (Publishers) LTD. First published in 1951 by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 16 Maddox Street, W.l Made and printed in Great Britain by Purnell and Sons, Ltd. Paulton (Somerset) and London To the memory of CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY and IAN MORRISON And· to those whose friendship and fortitude lightened the darkness of the worst of these days, and whose courage and integrity are not the least of the hopes of mankind : Homer Bigart, Stephen Barber, Alan Whicker, Lionel Crane, G. Ward Price, Tom Shaw, Tom Lambert, Louis Heren, Jim Hays, Ralph Izzard, Dwight Martin, Georgie Herman, Bernard Forbes, Bernie Kaplan, Henri Turenne, Mike James, Alex Valentine, Roy Macartney, Roland Hurman, Freddie Sparks. And to those others whose support in more peaceful sur roundings lent me courage. "In times when I feel that all that makes for the dignity. the honour. and the true value of man is in such great danger -so threatened on all sides-what we go on living for, what gives a reason to our life, is precisely the knowledge that there are some young people-however few and from whatever country- who do not sit back. who keep intact their moral and intellectual integrity and protest against every totalitarian slogan, every movement that seeks to bend. to control, to subjugate thought, to weaken the soul (for in the last analysis it is the soul that is in question); it is the knowledge that they are there, these young people, that they are alive, they, the salt of the earth; it is precisely that which sustains our con fidence, we the old; it is that which permits me who am already so old to face death without despair. "I believe in the value of the small nations. I believe in the value of the minority. The world will be saved by the few." ANDRE GIDE (Spoken one week before he died.) CONTENTS PAGE PROLOGUE 11 PART ONE: THE ROAD TO SEOUL CHAPTER ONE THE ROAD TO 'SOMEWHERE' 19 TWO FIRST LEG 26 THREE INCHON 33 FOUR THE INCHON BRIDGEHEAD 39 FIVE ACROSS THE HAN RIVER 48 SIX SLOWLY TOWA RDS SEOUL 54 SEVEN THE FALL OF SEOUL 68 EIGHT THE END OF THE SEOUL STORY 80 PART TWO: THE ROAD TO PYONGYANG NINE BRIEF INTERLUDE . 97 TEN ACROSS THE PARALLEL 109 ELEVEN THE ADVANCE 133 TWELVE THE 27TH TAKES THE LEAD 152 THIRTEEN THE FALL OF PYONGYANG 171 PART THREE: THE ROAD TO RUIN FOURTEEN THE KOREAN REHEARSAL 187 FIFTEEN FAR EWELL TO PEACE . 208 SIXTEEN CHINESE PUZZLE . 218 SEVENTEEN ADVANCE IN LINE ABREAST 233 EIGHTEEN THE FLIGHT FROM THE CHONGCHON 245 PART FOUR: THE ROAD BACK NINETEEN TENSION IN TOKYO 263 TWENTY THE END OF THE BEGINNING 271 TWENTY-ONE THE YELLOW SEA 280 THE F.,ILOGUE 293 INDEX . 299 ix ILLUSTRATIONS The Author Frontispiece Seoul . Facing page 32 The Australian Battalion 33 Taegu . 48 Yesong river bridge 49 Crossing point, Imjin river 80 Kumchon road 80 Namchonjon 81 'The din was terrific' 96 In close country . 96 Captain Slim, adjutant, Padre, author 97 Men of Middlesex 97 North Korean village and villagers 128 Yongbyon . 129 The Argylls at Hungso-ri 144 The Turkish Brigade, officers 145 South Koreans, Y ongbyon area 176 Refugees, Chongchon river road 176 Korean children 177 Cry Korea . 192 No-man's-land 193 Refugees 224 Horse in burning village 224 With the Garry Owens 225 Lt.-Col. Huff's battalion 225 Dwight Martin, author, Homer Bigart 240 H.M.S. Kenya 241 x
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