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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
By Sides, Hampton
- ISBN
- 9780385541152 9780385541169
- Publisher
- Doubleday
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Reviewed on September 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
Outside magazine editor Sides (In the Kingdom of Ice) recounts the classic story of the Korean War's famous battle of the Chosin Reservoir during the winter of 1950. Led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Oliver Smith, American forces of the First Marine Division—who felt that Korea was "a long way to come to fight and bleed and die, in a war that was not officially a war, for a cause that at times was not...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
