| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
The hill -- The attack -- The siege -- "We will hold" -- The ridgerunners -- Postscript 2008. |
| Summary |
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir... The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox's Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like the outfit will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that cuts a hole in the Chinese lines and relieves the men of Fox. |
| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 2nd. F Company.
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United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
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Changjin Reservoir (Korea) -- History, Military.
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| Added Author |
Clavin, Tom, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780871139931 hardcover |
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0871139936 hardcover |
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