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Extract from Over Cold War Seas

The tension erupted into a crisis on 1 June 1948 when the western Allies announced the intention to form a new state in West Germany: on 23 June, the Soviets responded by closing land access to West Berlin, hoping to discourage the formation of the new state and perhaps in the hope that the western outpost deep within East Germany would capitulate.

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Korea, War Without End

All 62, a mix of old and young, male and female, recognised each of the battles, except for one, the Imjin River, fought during the Korean War. I wasn’t particularly surprised. The war which smashed into the Korean peninsula in 1950 is commonly described by many in the West as a forgotten war.

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