11
Author interview Alton, April 1985
12
Author interview Cooper, December 1985
13
Author interview Muir, September 1985
14
Author interview Tisdall, July 1985
15
Author interview Rickord, June 1985
16
Author interview Varley, February 1985
17
Author interview Fore, October 1985
18
Author interview Taplett, November 1985
19
Author interview Waters, November 1985
20
Author interview Pearson, July 1985
21
Author interview Major-General Sir John Willoughby, June 1985
22
Ibid
.
23
Minh
loc. cit
.
24
Kap
loc. cit
.
25
James Cameron,
Point of Departure
, pp. 106–7
26
Author interview Mayo, October 1985
27
Author interview General Paul Freeman, May 1985
28
Saturday Evening Post
, 23 October 1950
29
Ibid
.
30
Cameron
op. cit
., p. 109
5. Inchon
1
Shepherd oral history transcript, US Marine Corps Museum
2
Author interview General Alpha Bowser, May 1985
3
Author interview General Ellis Williamson, May 1985
4
Ladd
loc. cit
.
5
Taplett
loc. cit
.
6
Smith oral history transcript, US Marine Corps Museum
7
Ibid
.
8
Shepherd transcript
op. cit
.
9
Author interview Sheldon, May 1985
10
Williamson
loc. cit
.
11
Cameron
op. cit
., p. 137
12
Author interview Brigadier-General Ed Simmonds, October 1985
13
Cameron
op. cit
., p. 140
14
Smith transcript
op. cit
.
15
Michaelis
loc. cit
.
16
Williamson
loc. cit
.
17
Shepherd transcript
op. cit
.
18
Daily Telegraph
, 26.9.50
19
David Rees,
Korea: The Limited War
, p. 90
20
Simmonds
loc. cit
.
6. To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel
1
Shepherd transcript
op. cit
.
2
PRO CAB128/18
3
MacArthur
op. cit
., p. 214
4
Paek
loc. cit
.
5
Colin Mitchell,
Having Been a Soldier
, p. 77
6
US National Archive FR7: 1108–9
7
Quoted Rosemary Foot,
The Wrong War
, p. 94
7. The Coming of the Chinese
1
Author interview Simon, May 1985
2
Mitchell
op. cit
., p. 80
3
US National Archive, NSC Minutes 10.11.50
4
US National Archive, FR7: 1205–6
5
John Gittings,
The Role of the Chinese Army
, p. 43
6
People’s Daily
, 23 August 1950
7
Kavalam M. Panikkar,
In Two Chinas: Memoirs of a Diplomat
, p. 163
8
This version of the circumstances in which Marshal Peng assumed command of the ‘Volunteers’ is that given to the author by Chinese veterans in Peking in 1985. It must be treated with caution, and viewed against the background of Lin Piao’s disgrace. But some sinologists consider it plausible.
9
Quoted Samuel B. Griffith,
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army
, p. 135
10
Author interview Li Hebei, January 1985
11
Author interview Yu Xiu, January 1985
12
Author interview Li Hua, January 1985
13
To the author, May 1985
14
Author interview Mario Scarselleta, April 1985
15
Author interview Bill Shirk, April 1985
16
Quoted Griffith
op. cit
., p. 145
17
Fortune
loc. cit
.
18
Author interview James Waters, May 1985
19
Mitchell
op. cit
., p. 80
8. Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir
1
Smith transcript
op. cit
.
2
Ibid
.
3
Author interview Andrew Condron, August 1985
4
Letter to the author, August 1985
5
McAlister letter to the author, August 1985
6
To the author, September 1985
7
Bowser
loc. cit
.
8
Ibid
.
9
Taplett
loc. cit
.
10
Simmonds
loc. cit
.
11
Ladd
loc. cit
.
12
Shepherd transcript
op. cit
.
13
Williamson
loc. cit
.
14
Author interview Robert Tyack, October 1985
9. The Winter of Crisis
1
Freeman
loc. cit
.
2
Schultz letter to the author, March 1985
3
Bernard
loc. cit
.
4
Author interview Karl Morton, April 1985
5
Ladd
loc. cit
.
6
Crossbelts
, regimental magazine of the Royal Irish Hussars, Spring 1951
7
Paek Sun Yup
loc. cit
.
8
Digby Grist,
Remembered with Advantage
, p. 86
9
PRO London, WO216/3821
10
Ibid
.
11
Author interview Moon Yun Seung, October 1985
12
Cooper
loc. cit
.
13
Author interview Robert Erricker, June 1985
14
Martain
loc. cit
.
15
Quoted Walter Karig,
Battle Report
, p. 353
16
Author interview Hu Seng, February 1985
17
Li Xiu,
loc. cit
.
18
Li Hebei
loc. cit
.
19
PRO London WO216/836
20
Ibid
.
21
Ibid
.
22
Uncatalogued British records
23
This problem is discussed at more length in the author’s
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
(London and New York, 1984).
24
Ibid
.
25
James Cardinal, private correspondence loaned to the author
26
Fountain
loc. cit
.
27
Harry S. Truman,
Years of Trial and Hope
, p. 385
28
Acheson Papers, quoted Foot
op. cit
., p. 103
29
US National Archive FR7: 1330
30
MacArthur interview with
US News and World Report
, quoted Joseph C. Goulden,
Korea: The Untold Story
, p. 393
31
Truman
op. cit
., p. 381
32
PRO London WO216/836
33
US News and World Report, op. cit
.
34
PRO London, CAB128/180
35
Labour Party Conference Report, 1950, pp. 146–50
36
Alan Bullock,
Ernest Bevin
, vol. II, p. 821
37
Franks
loc. cit
.
38
PRO London FO371/83018, 8.12.50
39
Schnabel & Watson,
History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
vol. III, pt. 2, 6.12.50
40
Ibid
.
41
Richard F. Haynes, The Awesome Power: Harry S. Truman as Commander-in-Chief, p. 95
42
US National Archive Records of Army Staff G3 091 Korea TS 5.7.51, Box 38a, RG319
43
US National Archive, FR7: 1326
44
Foot
op. cit
., p. 132
45
US National Archive, Foreign Policy of the United States 7: 191–3
46
Matthew B. Ridgway,
The Korean War
, p. 86