BRADY, James : The coldest war (ajánló)
On Sunday, June 25, 1950, ninety thousand North Koreans pushed across the 38th Parallel into South Korea. James Brady had just graduated from college and receivel a commission in the Marine Corps Reserve. Soon he was sent into training, and off to war.
THE COLDEST WAR is Brady's masterful personal account of America's "forgotten war," which lasted thirty-seven months yet killed nearly as many Americans as died in ten years in Vietnam. Here Brady tells what it was like to be an un-blooded second lieutenant landing in a frozen land in the second year of what had become a devastating, old-fashioned trench war. In unforgettable detail, he describes his rapid education in life on the lines—from the daily danger of frostbite to the mingled fear and exultation of combat, from night patrols to a thirteen-hour climb carrying wounded men up a snow-covered mountain. Here is a city boy falling in love with the country on the occasional days and hours of peace—and a youth aware that remarkable circumstances are shaping him as a man. Combining history with one man's moving story, THE COLDEST WAR is an eloquent record of a vital chapter in American life.
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