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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

Author Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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ISBN / ASIN0802144519
ISBN-139780802144515
AvailabilityHabituellement expédié sous 24 h
Sales Rank370,715
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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The Last Stand of Fox Company November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where t...