The Chosin Few
Author | : Berry Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Changjin Reservoir |
ISBN | : 9780938021377 |
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Author | : Berry Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Changjin Reservoir |
ISBN | : 9780938021377 |
Author | : Hampton Sides |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385541163 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. "Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story—the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir—has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep." —The Washington Post On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic--and harrowing--operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea. Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of Marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances. Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, "Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives."
Author | : Martin Russ |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0140292594 |
On General Douglas MacArthur's orders, a force of 12,000 U.S. Marines were marching north to the Yalu river in late November 1950. These three 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 thier dead and wounded with them as they ran the gauntlet of unceasing Chinese attacks.This is the gripping story that Martin Russ tells in his extraordinary book. Breakout is an unforgettable portrayal of the terror and courage of men as they face sudden death, making the bloody battles of the Korean hills and valleys come alive as they never have before. Of interest will be the new PBS American Experience Documentary "The Battle of Chosin", which premiered on November 1, 2016.
Author | : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147281438X |
Based on unpublished first-hand accounts of the battle, this is a dramatic retelling of the desperate Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where the heavily outnumbered US 1st Marine Division held off vastly superior Chinese forces before successfully withdrawing in good order. In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps to be 'the Corps' Finest Hour.' The soldiers who fought there would later become known as the 'Frozen Chosen'. This incredible story is based on first hand interviews from surviving veterans, telling of heroism and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, as a handful of Marines fought desperately against wave after wave of Chinese forces. Sometimes forced into desperate hand to hand combat, the fighting retreat from Chosin marked one of the darkest moments for Western forces in Korea, but would go on to resonate with generations of Marines as a symbol of the Marine Corps' dogged determination, fighting skill, and never-say-die attitude on the battlefield.
Author | : Roy Edgar Appleman |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890964651 |
"Well written and meticulously researched ... East of Chosin is military history at its best". -- Harry G. Summers, Jr., Washington Post Book World
Author | : Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786256088 |
Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations. This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign. The race to the Yalu was on. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon and the subsequent breakout of the U.S. Eighth Army from the Pusan Perimeter and the recapture of Seoul had changed the direction of the war. Only the finishing touches needed to be done to complete the destruction of the North Korean People’s Army. Moving up the east coast was the independent X Corps, commanded by Major General Edward M. Almond, USA. The 1st Marine Division, under Major General Oliver P. Smith, was part of X Corps and had been so since the 15 September 1950 landing at Inchon. After Seoul the 1st Marine Division had reloaded into its amphibious ships and had swung around the Korean peninsula to land at Wonsan on the east coast. The landing on 26 October 1950 met no opposition; the port had been taken from the land side by the resurgent South Korean army. The date was General Smith’s 57th birthday, but he let it pass unnoticed. Two days later he ordered Colonel Homer L. Litzenberg, Jr., 47, to move his 7th Marine Regimental Combat Team north from Wonsan to Hamhung. Smith was then to prepare for an advance to the Manchurian border, 135 miles distant. And so began one of the Marine Corps’ greatest battles—or, as the Corps would call it, the “Chosin Reservoir Campaign.” The Marines called it the “Chosin” Reservoir because that is what their Japanese-based maps called it. The South Koreans, nationalistic sensibilities disturbed, preferred—and, indeed, would come to insist—that it be called the “Changjin” Reservoir.
Author | : James Jeep Canada |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1418461644 |
From the frozen Chosin in Korea to the DMZ in Vietnam the author brings some of the action that happen in Two Wars. He also tells about his time in the Presbyterian orphan home is Lynchburg Virginia. These are poems wrote in combat in Vietnam and fifty years after the fact he wrote about the Chosin Reservoir.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Changjin Reservoir (Korea) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Hammel |
Publisher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781612007885 |
The definitive account of the epic retreat under fire of the 1st Marine Division from the Chosin Reservoir.
Author | : Charles Anderson |
Publisher | : Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1457509911 |