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01937aim a2200277 a 4500 001 77005782C63411E9B2362BFE96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190824010020 007 sd 008 181012s2018 nyunnn z eng d 020 $a 0735208565 020 $a 9780735208568 040 $a $c $d SILO 100 1 $a Sides, Hampton. 245 10 $a On desperate ground $h [sound recording] : $b the marines at the reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle / $c Hampton Sides; read by David Pittu. 260 $a New York, New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2018. 300 $a 10 sound discs (approx. 12 hurs.) : $b digital, stereo ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact disc. 500 $a OCT18 500 $a Unabridged. 520 $a On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman the the Communist forces of Kin Il Sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Chinese soliders began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First Marine Division, the Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set for the vainglorious MacArthur along the frozen shores of the Chosin Reservoir. What follwed was one of the most heroic and harrowing operations in American military history, and one of the classic battles of all time. Faced with probable annihilation, and temperatures plunging to twenty degrees below zerio, the surrounded, and hugely outnumbered, Marines fought through the enemy forces with ferocity, ingenuity, and nearly unimaginable courage as they marched their way tot he sea. 700 1 $a Pittu, David, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20190824010318.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=77005782C63411E9B2362BFE96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search