A War of Patrols
Canadian Army Operations in Korea
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Korean War, Canada
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841061
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $99.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774810081
- Publish Date
- May 2003
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. Responding to a United Nations' call, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an American-led UN force. This comprehensive account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides the first detailed study of the training, leadership, operations, and tactics of the brigade under each of its three wartime commanders as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies. This impeccably researched analytical history also examines the various units, from the "Special Force" to the army's regular battalions that replaced them.
About the author
William Johnston is a historian with the Department of National Defence in Ottawa.