Description
This book tells the riveting story of one of the most heroic battles in American history. On General Douglas MacArthur’s orders, a force of 12,000 U.S. Marines was marching north to the Yalu River in late November 1950. These three Marine regiments of the 1st Marine Division — strung out along eighty miles of a narrow mountain road — soon found themselves completely surrounded by 60,000 Chinese soldiers. Despite being given up for lost by the military brass, the 1st Marine Division fought its way out of the frozen mountains, miraculously taking their dead and wounded with them as they ran the gauntlet of unceasing Chinese attacks. Also the source material of the PBS American Experience Documentary “The Battle of Chosin”, which premiered on November 1, 2016. AUTHOR: Martin Russ – Martin Russ, the recipient of a Purple Heart for his service as a Marine during the Korean War, is the author of The Last Parallel and Line of Departure. He lives in California’s Napa Valley.
GENRE: NF, MILITARY HISTORY
PUBLISHING: New York : Penguin Books, 2000, ©1999.
ISBN: 0140292594 9780140292596
PAGE COUNT: 452 pages : illustrations, maps
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