FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. 8VO WITH 349 PAGES. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE VERSO OF HALF TITLE PAGE, " To Shirley Burton-- A Pleasure to Talk to You The Other Night- Hope You Enjoy This, Sincerely, Jim Wilson." THE BOOK AND DJ ARE IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME SHELF WEAR. THERE ARE TWO DENTS TO BOTTOM EDGES OF BOARDS. THE DUST JACKET IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME SHELFWEAR AND SOME BUMPING TO EDGES. SOME BROWNING TO THE EDGE OF DUST JACKET. BLACK CLOTH-WHITE BOARDS. BLACK/GRAY/RED DJ. Size: 8vo.

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Title: Retreat, Hell!: We're Just Attacking in Another Direction
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0688075762
ISBN 13: 9780688075767
Binding: Boards
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Inscribed By Author
Book Type: Hardcover

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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

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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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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