Happy Xmas War Is Over

The Korean War Retold by a British Reporter

[Interview : Andrew Salmon, British Reporter
UK
] "Hello, my name is Andrew Salmon. I'm a Seoul-based reporter. I currently write for The Washington Times, for The Times in London, and also for Forbes Magazine in the U.S. And this is a very appropriate place to actually do the interview, because behind us is a T-34 tank. And my wife's family was in Seoul in June 1950, and my mother-in-law actually remembers seeing a column of these things rolling through the streets of Seoul on the 3rd day of the war."





[Interview : Andrew Salmon, British Reporter
UK
] "The book is called "Scorched Earth, Black Snow," and it covers mainly the fighting in North Korea in 1950. The reason it's called "Scorched Earth" is because when the UN forces were retreating from North Korea through Pyeongyang, they destroyed everything in their wake - bridges, villages, food stocks, infrastructure, everything was destroyed. And in military history, that's known as the "scorched earth" campaign. The reason it's called "Black Snow" is because, again, during the winter fighting when there was snow on the ground, there was such heavy use of napalm by the UN air forces that the whole areas of snow would turn black with petroleum jelly."



[Interview : Andrew Salmon, British Reporter
UK
] "One of the thousands of little tragedies of the war was the night before the British soldiers deployed on the ships to come to Busan, to come to Korea. The barracks were woken up. One of the soldiers was screaming, crying. He had a bad dream. Anyway he realized that his bad dream, this nightmare, was a premonition of his own death. He was killed in the first battle. His name, Private Sharpe, is just up here."



[Interview : Andrew Salmon, British Reporter
UK
] "So yeah, when researching this book, I think I gathered about 90 interviews from people in the U.S., South Korea, the U.K., and Australia, and spent a lot of time in dusty old museum back rooms, gathering archive material, looking through just a range of war diaries, personal letters, unit diaries, and so on. That's all in the back of the book. It's fully sourced."



[Interview : Andrew Salmon, British Reporter
UK
] " Being in Korea, being a reporter, and being someone who has always read military history, writing about the Korean War was an obvious topic, an obvious subject.

Happy Xmas (War is Over) | Popular Nostalgia

“Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is a song by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the The Plastic Ono Band. It was recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York City in late October of 1971, with the help of producer Phil Spector. The children singing in the background were from the Harlem Community Choir. This was originally released on clear green vinyl with Yoko Ono’s “Listen, The Snow Is Falling” as the B-side.

The song is a protest song about the Vietnam War and it has become a Christmas standard. In late 1969 by John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, rented billboards and posters in eleven cities around the world that read: “WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko”. The cities included New York, Tokyo, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Toronto, and some others. The line “War is over, if you want it, war is over, now!”, as sung by the background vocals, was taken directly from the billboards.

The record starts with a barely-audible whisper of Christmas greetings to their children: Yoko whispers “Happy Christmas, Kyoko”, then John whispers “Happy Christmas, Julian”. The single was released on December 6, 1971 in the US and the following November in the UK. Directly following John Lennon’s death on December 8, 1980, the song was re-released in the UK on December 20, 1980.

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