Retreat, Hell!: The Epic Story of the 1st Marines in Korea - Softcover

Wilson, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671678663 ISBN 13: 9780671678661

Publisher: Pocket, 1989

Synopsis

Chronicles the newly assembled 1st Marine Division's mission to seize the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, during which they fought treacherous mountains and seven well-armed Chinese regiments. Reissue.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In Nov.-Dec. 1950, the 1st Marine Division and part of the 7th Army Division were surrounded and vastly outnumbered at the Chosin Reservoir in northeast Korea by Chinese Communist forces, but managed to fight their way to Hungnam where an armada of ships took survivors to safety. Wilson offers a simplified, journalistic version of this complex campaign. Drawing on veterans' reminiscences, he stitches together a traditional gung-ho account of Marine operations but has little to say about the Army battalions whose sacrifice, according to some historians, enabled the Marines to escape. The book is marred by the author's descriptive inadequacies ("Boom!" appears six times on one page, for instance) and excessive reliance on stiff-upper-lip dialogue recalled over a span of nearly four decades. Wilson is photo editor for the Los Angeles Times. Photos. Military Book Club dual main selection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671678663
• ISBN 13: 9780671678661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352