Retreat, Hell!: We're Just Attacking in Another Direction

Wilson, Jim

ISBN 10: 0688075762 / ISBN 13: 9780688075767

Published by William Morrow & Co, 1988

About this Item

Signed. First Edition. 1st printing. signed by several members of the 1st Marines in the prelims. former owner's card on the front pastedown. pages clean.

Seller Inventory # mon0003961113

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Retreat, Hell!: We're Just Attacking in Another Direction
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688075762
• ISBN 13: 9780688075767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

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Synopsis

Recounts the brutal fighting undertaken by the men of the 1st Marine Division during the Korean War when they were surrounded by a larger force of Chinese troops and had to fight their way out

Reviews

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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