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The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
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"Superb... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail... This war story - the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir - has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep." (Washington Post)
From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War.
On Oct. 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war.
As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What followed was one of the most heroic - and harrowing - operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below zero, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way to the sea.
Hampton Sides' superb account of this epic clash relies on years of archival research, unpublished letters, declassified documents, and interviews with scores of marines and Koreans who survived the siege. While expertly detailing the follies of the American leaders, On Desperate Ground is an immediate, grunt's-eye view of history, enthralling in its narrative pace and powerful in its portrayal of what ordinary men are capable of in the most extreme circumstances.
Hampton Sides has been hailed by critics as one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation. As the Miami Herald wrote, "Sides has a novelist's eye for the propulsive elements that lend momentum and dramatic pace to the best nonfiction narratives."
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"Superb...a masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...Sides shows how brave Marines - officers and grunts - innovated, organized, and blasted their way out of the trap their fabulously famous boss had helped set. This war story - the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir - has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes, and cinematic sweep." (Washington Post)
“To this pantheon [of the best books on the Korean War] we can now add Hampton Sides’ On Desperate Ground, which hits all the right notes.... It’s a story Marines are rightly proud of and one that should be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the remains that just returned home from Korea, and why those men deserve to be remembered.” (Wall St. Journal)
"No one writes war and extreme life-and-death tales as vividly and authentically as Hampton Sides. As a veteran of the 1st Marine Division, I found his new book about one of the most desperate battles in American history to be riveting and beautifully told. Sides gets it all right, from the heroism of the Marines trapped in the frozen mountains to the chess moves of the generals and politicians who put them there. An incredible page-turner of a book, a must-read." (William Broyles Jr., acclaimed screenwriter of Jarhead, Apollo 13, Flags of Our Fathers, and Cast Away)
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By January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which "the end begins to come into view". The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke.
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I KNEW This Book Would Sting Me . . . .
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De: Mark Bowden
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Enemy at the Gates
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- Narrado por: David Baker
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On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat. The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.
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An Unforgettable and Haunting Read
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Ghost Soldiers
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- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: James Naughton
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At once a gripping depiction of men at war and a compelling story of redemption, Ghost Soldiers joins such landmark works as Flags of Our Fathers and The Greatest Generation Speaks in preserving the legacy of World War II for future generations.
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Ghost soldiers
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De: Hampton Sides
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The Last Stand of Fox Company
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- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
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The Last Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds. The authors have conducted dozens of firsthand interviews with the battle's survivors, and they narrate the story with the immediacy of such classic accounts of single battles as Guadalcanal Diary, Pork Chop Hill, and Black Hawk Down.
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Outstanding story, poor narration
- De Stephen en 03-05-09
De: Bob Drury, y otros
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Give Me Tomorrow
- The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story - The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
- De: Patrick K. O’Donnell
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
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“If I were God, what would you want for Christmas?” With a thousand-yard stare, a haggard and bloodied marine looked incredulously at the war correspondent who asked him this question. In an answer that took “almost forever,” the marine responded, “Give me tomorrow." After nearly four months of continuous and bloody combat in Korea, such a wish seemed impossible.
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The boys of Summer Camp….Amazing!!
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The Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told
- Unforgettable Stories of Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice
- De: Iain Martin, Colonel Joseph H. Alexander - introduction
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
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On Friday, November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the hallowed few, the proud - the Marines. Since then, the men and women of the United States Marine Corps have created the finest traditions of service and honor, and supplied a pantheon of heroes who have upheld them.
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Marines Will Hate This Narrator.
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De: Iain Martin, y otros
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Goodbye, Darkness
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- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
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This memoir offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific - what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.
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The best war memoir ever
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)
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- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
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The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern learner can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
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Fascinating book, great performance
- De Ted en 05-30-16
De: Rick Atkinson
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September Hope
- The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
- De: John C. McManus
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
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In September Hope, acclaimed historian John C. McManus explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. Operation Market-Garden is one of the war’s most famous, but least understood, battles, and McManus tells the story of the American contribution to this crucial phase of the war in Europe.
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Go yanks go !
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De: John C. McManus
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Invasion Diary
- De: Richard Tregaskis
- Narrado por: Pat Grimes
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The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these minutes by famed war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.
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wounding by shrapnel and survival is an incredible story
- De B. Herbert en 07-24-22
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Citizen Soldiers
- The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
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A masterful biography of the U.S. Army in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, Citizen Soldiers provides a compelling account of the extraordinary stories of ordinary men in their fight for democracy. From the high command on down to the enlisted men, Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides who were there.
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Required reading, excellent narration
- De Jeremy en 06-30-11
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The Great Raid on Cabanatuan
- Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
- De: William B. Breuer
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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Before General MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of "I shall return" and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers, emaciated and ill from brutal mistreatment, were still being held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp. A small band of Army Rangers set out on a daring rescue effort: to penetrate thirty miles into Japanese-controlled territory, storm the camp, and escape with the POWs...
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A Great Story
- De PCB en 11-08-05
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The Ghost Mountain Boys
- Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea
- De: James Campbell
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
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New Guinea became the site of one of the World War II's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over rugged mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna.
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painful reading
- De richard en 10-29-09
De: James Campbell
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
- How the Allies Won on D-Day
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
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Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord.
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Needs a map
- De James Lucas en 03-24-19
De: Giles Milton
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Rogue Heroes
- The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- De: Ben Macintyre
- Narrado por: Ben Macintyre
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Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: Given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war matériel.
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Those Who Dared, Won!
- De Matthew en 10-07-16
De: Ben Macintyre
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Saving Bravo
- The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator who knew our most important secrets crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.
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What a story!
- De Kindle Customer en 02-27-19
De: Stephan Talty
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Undefeated
- America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
- De: Bill Sloan
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Abandoned by their government, the men and women of the American garrison struggled against impossible military odds, rampant disease, and slow starvation to delay inevitable surrender by the largest American military force ever. Rather than picturing these defenders as little more than helpless victims of an overwhelmingly powerful and sadistic enemy-as most previous books about the Philippines campaign have done- Undefeated credits American troops with the unexcelled heroism and indomitable spirit they displayed under the worst imaginable conditions.
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Mesmerizing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-30-17
De: Bill Sloan
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Founding Partisans
- Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
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Very educational
- De Mark Mears en 02-21-24
De: H. W. Brands
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The Oregon Trail
- A New American Journey
- De: Rinker Buck
- Narrado por: Rinker Buck
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules - which hasn't been done in a century - that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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An author does not a good narrator make
- De C. Davis en 07-03-15
De: Rinker Buck
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- Nancy K. Barton
- 02-03-19
History to life
I heard of this battle while I was is 6th grade in 1964. This book brought what I was taught to life. To think that they went through this hell and came changed as they were. This is a must for anyone that is curious of the geopolitical of the time and why we must prevent war, not go forward willy-nilly .
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- Acarboneau
- 01-02-22
Incredible
Gripping from begging to end. The story is one we know of, but not in such detail. I love perspective of the generals, mixed with officers, and troops on the ground in the battle. Beautifully written and narrated. Hampton Sides is one of the best historical authors out there! Give it a listen! You wont regret this one.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-19
Must Read
This was an excellent book. I enjoyed the history and the intimacy created. This should be required reading.
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- Curious George
- 09-17-19
great story
well written narrative of Marines doing their job and creating the freedoms we unit today
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- ArmyRanger87
- 06-15-22
Excellent history and story
It’s difficult to write something as meaningless as a review in regard to what these marines, soldiers and naval personnel did in this operation.
The conditions, opposition and leadership (good and bad) create a story that is unmatched in American military history.
As a former infantry soldier with deep pride in the US Army, my respect for the US Marines is deep, complete and untiring both in regard to this operation and their entire history.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-24-20
Absolute must-listen
This book is incredible, moving and heart-rending and brutally honest. David Pittu did an amazing job with his narration, not flinching from the subject matter and giving the work the weight and respect it deserves.
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- gk
- 11-30-22
Excellent story of the Marine Corps
An exciting and thorough story of the human sacrifice, pain, and death in some of the most horrific fighting conditions known to man.
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- Robert T. Hughes
- 02-05-23
Great story
Very much enjoyed the way this was written and read. Had a personal feel as well as factual.
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- Dustin
- 03-31-23
great book
great book, a very good insight into the life of a solider early in us involvement in the Vietnam war.
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- Cindy L
- 10-01-23
Outstanding in Every Way
Hampton Sides is one of the best non-fiction authors I've ever read. His writing style and his use of language is masterful. This is my first Sides book and I will read anything he writes now. The narrator was excellent, never a distraction.
The only small criticism that was a distraction each time used, was his referring to military awards. EX: "For his extraordinary actions in battle, Johnny won the Congressional Medal of Honor." No member of the military ever sets out "to win" any medal or award.....this implies a contest or competition; furthest from any and all motivations in combat. A Silver Star or other award for valor on the battlefield is awarded and "received" never sought or won.
Overall, this book was amazing..... I really did not want to stop reading.
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