COMBAT COMMANDER: PACIFIC
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir
2018
NON-FICTIONGripping narrative of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir — where 15,000 UN troops were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in brutal Korean winter and fought their way to the sea.
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950
1983
NON-FICTIONThis battle analysis addresses the battle of Chosin Reservoir from 27 November to 11 December 1950 in northeastern North Korea during which the 1st Marine Division and some attached U.S. Army units fo...
Frozen Chosin
2014
NON-FICTIONBattle of the Chosin Reservoir, Chosin also called Changjin, campaign early in the Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive (November–December 1950) to drive the United Nations out of North Ko...
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 NOV-11 DEC 1950
1983
NON-FICTIONAnalyse fra Korea-krigen af kampene ved Chosin, hvor 1. US Marine Division, der var omringet af talstærke kinesiske styrker, slog sig igennem medbringende deres materiel og sårede.
Attack at Chosin
2020
NON-FICTIONFor members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, courage, and ingenuity. Their exploits are well known—wove...
Chosin
2007
NON-FICTIONIt was 1950, a brutally cold November in North Korea, and the war seemed all but over. And then a force of nearly 70,000 Chinese "volunteers" crossed the Yalu River, encircling the 30,000 United Natio...
35th Anniversary, the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea
1985
NON-FICTIONEast of Chosin
2002
NON-FICTION"Well written and meticulously researched ... East of Chosin is military history at its best". -- Harry G. Summers, Jr., Washington Post Book World
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
2011
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the brutal naval campaign for Guadalcanal, covering six major sea battles fought in Iron Bottom Sound.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
Vietnam Remembered Today
2010
NON-FICTIONThis is the story of two brothers who served in Vietnam at the same time, yet their experiences were vastly different, one in a support function and the other fighting in the jungle.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
1992
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.
The Pacific War
2010
NON-FICTIONOffers an introduction to the Pacific War, including such topics as the opening amphibious operations and Japanese naval strategy after Midway.
The Turning Points in the Pacific
2014
NON-FICTION*Includes pictures *Includes soldiers' accounts of the fighting *Includes bibliographies for further reading Although not as well-remembered as D-Day or even the attack at Pearl Harbor that preceded i...
Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize–winning account of the Vietnam War seen through the career of John Paul Vann, a soldier who saw through official optimism.