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A Christmas Far from Home : an Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War.
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 Christ...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Da Capo Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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
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- Beginning the Breakout; 7
- Hagaru to Koto-ri; 8
- A Bridge Apart; 9
- Downhill All the Way; 10
- Christmas Eve; Epilogue; Sources; Acknowledgments; Index.