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Author_Edwin Howard Simmons
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Chinese intervention Korean War battles
Dog Company Marine infantry narrative
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Inchon to Seoul Marine campaign
Korean War battlefield fiction
Korean War battlefield realism
Korean War frontline soldier experience
Korean War Marine Corps novel
Korean War military historical fiction
Marine Corps small unit leadership combat
Marine rifle company war story
naval infantry combat novel
US Marines frontline combat Korea
US Marines Korean War combat story
USMC infantry company combat story
USMC war leadership narrative
Product details
- ISBN 9781591147893
- Weight: 264g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2008
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Marine who wielded both pen and sword in a long, distinguished career captures the heroism and horror of the early days of the Korean War in this gripping novel. As a young man--with his own experiences in the war still vivid in his mind--Simmons wrote of the complex gamut of emotions and experiences that made this bloody encounter between East and West so unique. He kept the manuscript to himself until the war's fiftieth anniversary, when it was published to critical acclaim. Lauded for bringing a psychological intensity and realism to the war, the novel tells the story of a Marine reserve captain abruptly recalled to active duty to lead a company of Marines in a series of battles from the mud flats of Inchon to the frozen wasteland of the Chosin reservoir.
Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.) served in the Marine Corps for thirty-six years, from 1942 to 1978, and is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He also served the Corps for seventeen years as a civilian, including many years as Director of Marine Corps History and Museums. He is the author of the Korean War novel Dog Company Six, The United States Marines: A History, and Frozen Choisin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir, among other publications. He died in May 2007.
