Poetry of the Korean War
Holroyd, Reuben (ed)
British Korean Veterans Association (2003)
In Collection
#6217
0*
Anthology
Softcover 
Product Details
Nationality British
Pub Place London
Personal Details
Read It Yes
User Defined
Conflict Korea
Notes
6 copies listed on WorldCat
Edited by Reuben Holroyd, The Duke of Wellington Regiment

Back cover:
"This is not a book about quality poetry of metrical composition and elevated verse or prose. the poems were written by young men, some still in their teens, trying to express their feelings and thoughts of their experiences in war.
Many of these soldiers, particularly the national servicemen, had only received three months training before they boarded troopships and sailed off on a 10,000 mile voyage around the world. It began as a great adventure with their knees definitely getting brown on the four week cruise to the Far East. Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Columb, Singapore, were ports that came and went. Some of the newer recruits disembarked at Hong Kong or Japan for acclimatization and a further few weeks' training.
But for most of their active service in Korea, their only view of the world was a desolate wilderness of hills and long abandoned paddy fields. Trench walls and barbed wire. Frozen in winter, roasted in summer. Boredom and sudden death.
What inspired them to write poetry in such desolate surroundings? But write they did. Their words and the stories they tell will be familiar and ring true to those who were there, and are recorded here as their legacy to future generations.
The poems are printed in progressive order in seven sections - Off to War, The Land of the Morning Calm, The Pity of War, In the Line, Irreverent, Captivity and Reminiscence.