Korean War - Imjin River: Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951-July 1953

As of October 1950, a quarter of a million Communist Chinese troops, in twenty—seven divisions, had poured across the Yalu River into North Korea, with the singular objective of forcing General Douglas MacArthur’s United Nations troops back across the 38th Parallel and into the Sea of Japan.

Shortly before midnight on 22 April 1951, to the west of the US Eighth Army’s defensive front, the Chinese Sixty—third Army fell on the British 29th Brigade. On the left flank, the 1st Battalion, Glouces...