Korea: The War Before Vietnam

"Callum was a friend of mine, just because I read his book and got to know him, and I think this is one of the very best books on the war. It makes the point that you can also draw out of Reginald Thompson’s book: that the Korean War was much more like the Vietnam War than any other war before that. It had very shifting lines. The guerrillas were very much involved, particularly in the first year or so. There were atrocities and the kind of things that we have come to associate with the Vietnam War. I also think the book is overlooked because Callum died of pancreatic cancer when he was still quite young. It was a terrible loss to his family and also to the literature."