Discover remarkable tales and personal stories from the Korean War, a forgotten conflict that helped shape the modern world.

This podcast brings together historian Sir Max Hastings with surviving veterans to remember the Battle of the Imjin River during the Korean War. For three days, troops of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment held out against Chinese forces in the bloodiest battle endured by the British Army since World War Two.

A ‘walking wounded’ soldier of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment being escorted away from the battlefield (IWM BF 389).

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From the oilfields of the Middle East to the jungles of Burma, our Voices podcast takes you to the frontline of key moments in history – with first-hand accounts from those that were there. Hosted by Harry Bucknall.

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