Give me tomorrow : the Korean War's greatest untold story--the epic stand of the marines of George Company /

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Author / Creator:O'Donnell, Patrick K., 1969-
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], c 2010.
Description:xii, 261 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8271416
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ISBN:9780306818011 (hbk.)
0306818019 (hbk.)
9780306819421 (ebook)
0306819422 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of hastily trained green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin Reservoir.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • 1. The "Minutemen of 1950"
  • 2. The Great Gamble
  • 3. Voyage
  • 4. Inchon
  • 5. Tank!
  • 6. Yongdungpo
  • 7. Seoul
  • 8. Urban Holocaust
  • 9. North Korean Counterattack
  • 10. Retrograde
  • 11. Wonsan
  • 12. Majon-ni: Luck of the Draw
  • 13. Goldbricking It
  • 14. The Road North
  • 15. The Road to Hell
  • 16. Roadblocks
  • 17. "At All Costs"
  • 18. Hagaru
  • 19. East Hill
  • 20. "We're Going to Fight like Hell"
  • 21. Holding the Line
  • 22. Breakout
  • 23. The Living Walked. The Dead Rode
  • 24. The Final Push
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. After Chosin
  • Appendix B. Then and Now
  • Appendix C. Citations
  • Appendix D. Letter to David Douglas Duncan
  • Appendix E. The Fallen Members of George Company, 1950-1953
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index