Screen Saviours: History on Television
From A.J.P. Taylor’s mesmerising lectures in front of a black backdrop to technicolour Civilisation and the ground-breaking World At War, Taylor Downing looks at the early days of history on television.
On November 26th, 1950, 100,000 volunteers of the Chinese People's Army launched a massive assault upon US-UN troops in North Korea. The Chinese volunteers rapidly overran the Americans who withdrew in a shambles. There were terrible scenes as even elite US marines were forced to retreat in the face of the Chinese assault. It was a rout. The withdrawal of the American 8th Army was the longest retreat of any American military unit in the nation's history. The war eventually settled into a stalemate along a front that divided the Korean peninsular. Neither side could shift the other.
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