A Christmas far from home an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War
Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's Chinese, who would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops poised toward th...
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Boston, MA :
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2015]
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| Edition: | [First Da Capo Press paperback edition] |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- A Turkey for Thanksgiving
- Upbeat Thanksgiving
- The Pincers Parlay
- Mission Impossible
- An Entirely New War
- Beginning the Breakout
- Hagaru to Koto-ri
- A Bridge Apart
- Downhill All the Way
- Christmas Eve
- Epilogue
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
