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S'està carregant… A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean Warde Stanley Weintraub
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. It reads like a textbook. I feel that "an epic tale of courage and survival" implies some sort of human connection. He includes 1-2 sentence quotes from many hundreds of soldiers and OCCASIONALLY a whole paragraph about a single soldier, but it's not at all what I expected. I was expecting the memoir of a soldier, or the lived experiences of a unit, not a general overview of what went wrong and poor decisions made by generals. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"From an acclaimed historian, the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain. 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 the Yalu River border. Led by Marines, an overwhelmed X Corps evacuated the frigid, mountainous Chosin Reservoir fastness 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 troop ships 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"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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