Word: chosin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well as politicians strangely silent. Korea inspired no All Quiet on the Western Front, no From Here to Eternity, no Dispatches. Most books on the subject are military histories, bristling with regimental acronyms that only a quartermaster could love. (William B. Hopkins' forthcoming eyewitness account of the Marines at Chosin, One Bugle No Drums, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C., neatly avoids this trap.) Knox's book does not entirely forswear such an approach. But for the most part, the story is told in the unadorned, often eloquent words of the American dogfaces and grunts who fought there...
...military never closed its doors, and service was passed down like a gold pocket watch. Sometimes it was a good safe bet, all beer gardens and the G.I. Bill, and sometimes it was snake eyes, and the soldiers found themselves at a Chosin Reservoir, or a Hue, or on a wrong turn to Nasiriyah...
...correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying in a Chosin Reservoir crater or Mekong Delta rice paddy for Old Glory made practical sense. Fear of death, however, permeates them all, no matter in which bloodstained decade they were composed...
...Linda, or "Toddy," as friends call her. He was also buoyed by the simple, touching love of his father, who knew more than a little about combat. Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller had won his general's stars leading his regiment to safety in the harrowing American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the first winter of the Korean...
...President Truman threatened to use atomic bombs if the Soviets did not withdraw their troops from Iran. In 1950, with American marines trapped by Chinese forces at Korea's Chosin reservoir. Eisenhower, trying to force a settlement in Korea, threatened the Chinese with nuclear weapons...