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The Edge of the Sword
The stand of the first Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment ( the Glorious Glosters ), at the Eastern crossing of the Imjin River in Korea has passed into British military history as an epic. The Edge of the Sword is more than an authentic frontline account of that engagements as seen and fought in by the Adjutant of the Battalion, for he, almost alone, was in Command of the whole situation. In vivid detail he paints the picture of the battle which won the admiration and wonder of the world. Overwhelmed by fantastic odds, with ammunition spent, the author and his remaining men are led into captivity. In calm language he describes the dreadful conditions of interrogation in a Korean prison camp, of an entirely new psychological treatment for POWs aimed at capturing their minds and spirits as well as their bodies, of life with Chinese in the outside prison camps, of his amazing escapee journeys through North Korea, all ending in recapture. Capt. Anthony Farra-Hockleyd D.S.O., M.C., enlisted under age as a regular
soldier in the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was commissioned to the rank
of sergeant in to the Parachute Regiment with whom he served in the Middle
East during the last war as a platoon and company commander. He rejoined
the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1948.
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