East of Chosin
Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950
Roy Appleman's East of Chosin, first published in 1987, won acclaim from reviewers, readers, and veterans and their families. For the first time, there was one complete and accessible record of what happened to the army troops trapped east of the Chosin Reservoir during the first wintry blast of the Korean War. Based heavily on the author's interviews and correspondence with the survivors, East of Chosin provided some of those men with their first clue to the fate of fellow soldiers. In November of 1950, U.S. forces had pushed deep into North Korea. Unknown to them, Chinese troops well equipped for below zero temperatures and blizzard conditi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-89096-465-1
- EAN: 9780890964651
- Produktnummer: 9149814
- Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.8 cm 696 g
- Abbildungen: 40 b&w photographs
- Gewicht: 696
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
The late Roy E. Appleman wrote five books on the war of maneuver in Korea, among them Ridgway Duels for Korea, which won the Truman Library Book Award. During the Korean War, he served as an army historian, interviewing troops shortly after combat. He left his papers, including all interviews related to the Chosin campaign research, to the Army History Center at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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