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Christmas Far from Home, A by Stanley Weintraub Korean war W/ dust jacket
Christmas Far from Home, A by Stanley Weintraub
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
286 pages
Copyright 2014
CONTENTS
Preface xiii
1 A Turkey for Thanksgiving
2 Upbeat Thanksgiving 29
3 The Pincers Parlay 6i
4 Mission Impossible 83
5 An Entirely New War io5
6 Beginning the Breakout 129
7 Hagaru to Koto-ri 157
8 A Bridge Apart 187
9 Downhill All the Way 215
10 Christmas Eve 233
Epilogue 257
Sources 263
Acknowledgments 277
Index 279
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
THE EPIC STORY OF THE 1950 CHRISTMAS SEASON, WHEN AMERICAN TROOPS FACED EXTREME COLD, A DETERMINED ENEMY, AND LONG ODDS
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.
Led by the Marines, an overwhelmed X Corps evacuated the frigid, mountainous Chosin Reservoir vastness and fought a swarming enemy and treacherous snow and ice to reach the coast. Weather, terrain, Chinese firepower, and a 4,000-foot chasm made escape seem impossible in the face of a vanishing Christmas. But endurance and sacrifice prevailed, and the last troopships weighed anchor on Christmas Eve.
In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas, Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season.
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