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A Christmas Far from Home. An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

By Stanley Weintraub

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0306822326
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (79049597 bytes)
Pages
\305
Time added
2017-01-20 16:52:37

Description

The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Mao's Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures, General Edward Almond's X Corps, which included a Marine division under the able leadership of General Oliver Smith, encountered little resistance. But thousands of Chinese, who had infiltrated across the frozen Yalu River, were lying in wait and would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops.

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