heroism in the Korean War

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Bloodbath that nearly downed the world: In their own enthralling words, the spine-tingling heroism of the forgotten British troops who fought in the Korean War

Few of us have anything but a hazy notion of the vicious conflict that split the Korean peninsula in the Fifties, when Britain (soldiers pictured) joined the U.S. under the flag of the United Nations to combat communist forces backed by Mao Tse Tung's China.