North Korean Onslaught - Volume II: UN Stand at the Pusan Perimeter, August 1950 Van Tonder GerryPaperback / softback

In the first volume in this series on the Korean War, North Korea Invades the South, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery crossed the 38th Parallel, and, in blitzkrieg style, rolled back UN and South Korean forces down the Korean peninsula. To the east and centre of the peninsula, the enemy closed in on Kimch'ŏn and the Naktong River line. Despite the US and South Korea committing army, air force and navy units, supported by forces from Australia, Britain, New Zealand, France and Canada, by 31 July, eleven enemy divisions were concentrated in a disconnected line from Chŏnju to Yŏngdong.Along the south coast, North Korean divisions pushed eastward towards Masan.

Reeling, the UN forces desperately On the east coast, three North Korean divisions secured the Yŏngdŏk-P'ohang axis, placing them within mortar range of the UN airfield at Yŏnil.