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Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

1983

NON-FICTION

This 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...

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Frozen Chosin

Edwin H. Simmons, Usmc (Ret ) Brigadier General Simmons

2014

NON-FICTION

Battle 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...

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 NOV-11 DEC 1950

F.M. Berger

1983

NON-FICTION

Analyse 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.

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Attack at Chosin
Attack at Chosin

Xiaobing Li

2020

NON-FICTION

For 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...

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Chosin
Chosin

Eric Hammel

2007

NON-FICTION

It 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...

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 35
35th Anniversary, the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea

Chosin Few (Association)

1985

NON-FICTION
Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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East of Chosin
East of Chosin

Roy Edgar Appleman

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

Same eventSame warTags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 22
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History

T. R. Fehrenbach

1963

NON-FICTION

Classic examination of the Korean War that focuses on the experience of the infantry soldier and the failures of American military preparedness.

Same warTags: Cold War, East Asia, Infantry, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

1992

NON-FICTION

Definitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Infantry, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 13
Crazy Horse and Custer
Crazy Horse and Custer

Stephen E. Ambrose

1996

NON-FICTION

The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army sol...

Same warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

NON-FICTION

Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Clay Blair

1987

NON-FICTION

The most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.

Tags: Cold War, Infantry, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

1988

NON-FICTION

Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the Vietnam War seen through the career of John Paul Vann, a soldier who saw through official optimism.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953

Clay Blair

1987

NON-FICTION

The most comprehensive operational history of the Korean War, based on thousands of interviews and classified documents.

Tags: Cold War, East Asia, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam

2007

NON-FICTION

Sweeping narrative of the Korean War from MacArthur's Inchon triumph to the Chinese intervention and the bitter battles of 1950–51, told through the lives of the men who fought it.

Tags: East Asia, Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs

H.R. McMaster

1997

NON-FICTION

Controversial argument that the Vietnam War was lost as much by deception and institutional failures at the top of the U.S. military and government as by battlefield failure.

Tags: Asia, Cold War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Korean War
Korean War

Captivating History

2017

MILITARY HISTORY

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to...

Same war
MATCH 09
The Korean War
The Korean War

Max Hastings

1987

FICTION

Chronicles the Korean War with over 200 interviews of veterans, including the Chinese.

Same war
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Frozen Valor
Frozen Valor

Austin Hoffman

2023

NON-FICTION

Frozen Valor: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign - Courage, Sacrifice, and Survival in the Harsh Winter Battle of the Korean War Beneath a sky of bone-chilling blizzards, where temperatures plunged like da...

Tags: Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Love in Winter
Love in Winter

Yong-ik Kim

1963

NON-FICTION

Twelve short stories telling of the loves, triumphs, and tragedies of people of post-war Korea.

Tags: Korean War, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction