the real battle was fought by US Army troops. The movie itself is a fictional account of events that took place during actual operations in Grenada. The 2004 South Korean film Tae Guk Gi (released in the US as Brotherhood of War) also features this battle as the final battle of the film and the climax (this is evidenced when a South Korean commander, briefing his men, mentions that their objective in the attack is to take Hills 931 and 851).Crèvecœur (Heartbreak) is a French combat documentary by Jacques Dupont, released in 1955 featuring the battle and using actual war footage. It was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Documentary category for 1955.Heartbreak Ridge () is a map for the RTS (real-time strategy) computer game StarCraft. It was released in South Korea in 2009 and has since then been used in many leagues in the professional StarCraft scene, as well as in non-Korean leagues and in amateur play. In M*A*S*H Heartbreak Ridge is mentioned in episode 9B01 "Trick or Treatment" (Season 11, Episode 2) as the location where the soldiers' buddies named "Bertleson, Wooster, Greenwade" were killed in an empty foxhole during an "early Thanksgiving". French writer Jean Lartéguy fought in the French Battalion and was wounded by an enemy hand grenade during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. His novel Les mercenaires (1963) is a highly fictionalized description of the battle. References Bibliography Blair, Clay, The Forgotten War, New York: Times Books (1987) Fehrenbach, T. R., This Kind of War, New York: Macmillan (1964) Encyclopedia of the Korean War'', Spencer Tucker (ed.), New York: Checkmark (2002) Battles and operations of the Korean War in 1951 Battles of the Korean War involving North Korea Battles of the Korean War involving South Korea Battles of the Korean War involving China Battles of the Korean War involving France Battles of the Korean War involving the United States Battles of the Korean War History of Gangwon Province, South Korea October 1951 events in Asia September 1951 events in Asia