Dan Bjarnason

Dan Bjarnason was born in 1942 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada and for almost 40 years was a television news correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

During his world-wide assignments, including time as a foreign correspondent based in London England, he specialized in military history. His TV stories included both the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the D-Day landings; the Liberation of Holland; Leningrad; the Little Bighorn; the Falkland Islands; the US Civil War; the 1982 siege of Beirut; the Rhodesian War; Northern Ireland and Narvik, Norway. His personal visits to battlefields include Dieppe; Gallipoli; El Alamein; Sicily; Culloden; Granada, Spain; Hastings; and Berlin. Bjarnason also spend two (submerged)weeks board a Canadian Navy submarine on a trans-Atlantic crossing.

He has just completed a book on Canada's first battle in the Korean War called "Triumph at Kapyong" fought in April 1951 in which seven hundred surrounded infantrymen, mostly amateur citizen soldiers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, stood off an attack by 5,000 Chinese soldiers. The men were awarded a US Presidential citation for stopping the enemy thrust at Seoul.

"Triumph at Kapyong" will be published by Dundurn Press of Toronto (http://www.dundurn.com/)in the spring of 2011.

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