A Christmas far from home : an epic tale of courage and survival during the Korean War
by Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019 (Author)
Summary
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... Full description
- 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.