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A Christmas Far from Home [electronic resource] : An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War.
<Div>An anecdote-rich narrative of the 1950 holiday season during the Korean War, when, just after Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of US troops were surrounded in the Chosin reservoir area by hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops and began a terrible and difficult retreat, which finally ended on Christmas Day.</div>
Record details
- ISBN: 9780306822339
- ISBN: 0306822334
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Publisher: New York : Da Capo Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface; 1 -- A Turkey for Thanksgiving; 2 -- Upbeat Thanksgiving; 3 -- The Pincers Parlay; 4 -- Mission Impossible: The Offensive Short-Circuits; 5 -- An ""Entirely New War""; 6 -- Beginning the Breakout; 7 -- Hagaru to Koto-ri; 8 -- A Bridge Apart; 9 -- Downhill All the Way; 10 -- Christmas Eve; Epilogue; Sources; Acknowledgments; Index |
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